Bugbear

Neither bugs nor bears, bugbears are the hulking cousins of goblins and hobgoblins. With roots in the Shadowfell, early bugbears developed after a band of goblins stole something of importance from the Great Hag, a legendary figure and boogeyman of bedtime stories, and the clan was scattered across the Material Plane, Feywilds, and Shadowfell. Bugbears resided in hidden places, in hard-to-reach and shadowed spaces. Long ago and from out of the corner of your eye, they returned to the Material Plane, urged to spread throughout the multiverse by the conquering goblinoid god Maglubiyet. Millennia later, they still bear a gift for lurking just out of sight, and many of them have snuck away from the god’s influence. They are long of limb and covered in coarse hair, with wedge-shaped ears and pointed teeth. Despite their formidable build, bugbears are quiet skulkers, thanks to the influence of the Shadowfell that allows them to hide in spaces seemingly too small for them.