Svarts

These blue goblins have minor psychic abilities, which they use to keep their home in the Cloudripper Peaks hidden and to forge relationships with local cave bears. When the Pathfinders were able to pass through their psychic wards, the svarts decided to induct the strangers into the tribe, awakening psychic abilities in them.

They record their history in carved and painted pictographs within the Cave of Ursa. The svarts were originally primitive scavengers at the borders of a more advanced civilization. Upon the destruction of this civilization, they fled into the mountains. Here the svarts encountered the great cave bear Ursa, who mothered them. The bear's milk made them strong, and the salmon of wisdom which Ursa caught for them opened their third eye. The svarts honour her gifts by caring for the bears near their home.

They additionally believe that the first bugbear was a goblin who tried to take the strength of the bear for himself.

The bones of Ursa remain within the cave. The spirit of the bear is capable of speaking through a svart who wears her skull.