HOME | DD

Description
(my version fo) Two recurring creatures in heroic fantasy which are likely to appear in my futur projects, the hobgoblin (to the left) and the orc (to the right).
I put them together cause they're easily and generally mingled with each other, so I can point out their differences.

You see, my personal description of the hobgoblin is a goblin human-sized — the classical goblins are more dwarf-sized and don't exceed 1m40 (so just imagine the one on the picture short-legged to get my vision of the goblin) . And if the hobgoblin doesn't exceed the size, stature and strength of a human while the orc does, he could be seen as the intermediary between the goblin and the orc.
The hobgoblin's face remains that of a goblin (large and long pointy ears, big nose, pointy chin and small sharp teeth) while the orc's face is closer to that of a ogre (smaller ears, flat nose, larger and more prognathous chin with longer fangs).
Concerning their habits, orcs are more bold, reckless and more go-to-war, trained to fear neither death nor pain and worshipping the fight in all its forms, to the point of raiding more for pleasure than necessity and have their own sense of honour while hobgoblins (and also goblins) raid more by interest, by profit, are more recreant and more the type to attack treacherously, dastardly, but rarely in front. In fact, goblins are so coward that they easily flee or surrender when their fight is lost in advance, while orcs consider fleeing or surrender as a disgrace worse than failure itself.

If I should give them a equivalent to Middle Earth's mythology, the hobgoblins would be the traditional orcs of the Lord of the Rings, as described by Tolkien (for whom orcs and goblins was nearly the same thing) or those who are called Snaga, while the orcs would be the uruk hai or the Guldur and Gundabad's orcs from the Hobbit trilogy.

Description
(my version fo) Two recurring creatures in heroic fantasy which are likely to appear in my futur projects, the hobgoblin (to the left) and the orc (to the right).
I put them together cause they're easily and generally mingled with each other, so I can point out their differences.

You see, my personal description of the hobgoblin is a goblin human-sized — the classical goblins are more dwarf-sized and don't exceed 1m40 (so just imagine the one on the picture short-legged to get my vision of the goblin) . And if the hobgoblin doesn't exceed the size, stature and strength of a human while the orc does, he could be seen as the intermediary between the goblin and the orc.
The hobgoblin's face remains that of a goblin (large and long pointy ears, big nose, pointy chin and small sharp teeth) while the orc's face is closer to that of a ogre (smaller ears, flat nose, larger and more prognathous chin with longer fangs).
Concerning their habits, orcs are more bold, reckless and more go-to-war, trained to fear neither death nor pain and worshipping the fight in all its forms, to the point of raiding more for pleasure than necessity and have their own sense of honour while hobgoblins (and also goblins) raid more by interest, by profit, are more recreant and more the type to attack treacherously, dastardly, but rarely in front. In fact, goblins are so coward that they easily flee or surrender when their fight is lost in advance, while orcs consider fleeing or surrender as a disgrace worse than failure itself.

If I should give them a equivalent to Middle Earth's mythology, the hobgoblins would be the traditional orcs of the Lord of the Rings, as described by Tolkien (for whom orcs and goblins was nearly the same thing) or those who are called Snaga, while the orcs would be the uruk hai or the Guldur and Gundabad's orcs from the Hobbit trilogy.