Hobgoblin Scourge (Basic Lore)

Hobgoblin Scourge (CR 16)
Lawful Evil - Medium - Fey
Hobgoblins are the cruelest and most common of the Low Fey. Although technically Outsiders, they live on the Prime material in large numbers, their enclaves generally isolated. By the measures of more 'normal' races, the Hobgoblins, like all fey, are quite insane. Their motives and reasoning are just-so-subtly...off. For example. Hobgoblins are quite formidable beings. If they formed armies and marched on their neighbors, they could establish nations and empires easily enough. But they do not. They don't care about such things, being content to live in small towns and thorps, a few dozen here, a few hundred there.... That is all that they are interested in. Hobgoblins are far more interested in their byzantine social lives and the torment of their slaves than they are about worrying over living space, to be honest. Hobgoblin Scourges are the 'hoity toity' members of hobgoblin society. They are not nobility by any stretch, but they're wealthy and well-fed, just a touch full of themselves, just a touch superior to the lesser sorts around them. Scourges are better dressed, have more elaborate homes and lairs, and of course, have more slaves. Oddly enough, Scourges treat their slaves even more poorly than do lesser sorts of hobgoblins, and will almost always have a slave nearby to carry out their tyrannical orders, torment, and even casually torture as the whim strikes them. Despite their airs, Hobgoblin Scourges are skilled combatants and more than a little skilled in cruel magics, that they use to good effect against their victims. Scourges are less likely to roam afield than other Hobgoblins, although they are occasionally encountered working with some Deceivers for some other monstrous neighbor.