Red Caps

Red caps are part of the Goblin Court. If goblins were the foot soldiers of the Unseelie, Red caps were the shock troops. They were stronger, bigger and more vicious than the average goblin. Usually eight to ten feet tall, they moved with an eerie grace. Their skin ranged from yellow to grey, their eyes oblongs of red. Each wore a round scarlet hat, most had to maintain the color of the cap by dipping it in fresh blood, some, however, had the rare natural ability to keep the blood on its cap fresh and flowing. Blood which flowed from the cap ran in near continuous rivulets, never quite reaching the floor, but absorbed through their bodies.

Once, long a go, when they were a sithen of their own, and not part of the Goblin court, to be a war leader among them one needed the rare ability to keep its cap fresh and flowing.

They are said to have originated in ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland where battle seemed never ending.

Jonty was the first of the Redcaps to make a personal pledge to Meredith above and beyond the goblin treaty.