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[Mel_Vixen]

*sigh* The german Language (as well as the french, the english and many more) place different races in Groups so this isnt much a problem here. The Kobold has in Gemrna more a positiv konotation while the goblin has a rather bad reputation.
Elves and dwarfs are to related according to the Edda and other sources on Northern Mythology. Fairys are also related to Elves by later works and Folklore.

It would interresting if Kobolds and Goblins would share some heritage but this would, in my opinion, more like between us and the Neandertals or between scamps and a lion.

[Michael]

I read a story about how ancient miners who were digging for copper would look for traces of blue in the rock, which indicated some copper ore or another. However, when they dug it out and refined it, it would occasionally turn out to be a useless (at the time) metal that they didn't want. They believed Kobolds were responsible, either enchanting the vein to look like copper, or stealing the ore and replacing it with false copper when nobody was looking. Thus, they called it "Cobalt."

And this ore actually exists in DF.  Cobaltite is one of the two worthless stone types (the other is Cinnabar) that are represented with a pound-sterling sign.  This might confuse a novice player into thinking they are valuable, since most of the good ores and native deposits are represented with that symbol...