Kobold

Kobold: A kobold is the German version of a goblin, sprite, leprechaun, fairy - a benign spirit that plays tricks and disappears. In the German folklore, their are house kobolds, miner kobolds, and sailor kobolds. The house kobold is like the house elf in Harry Potter. The kobolds in World of Warcraft is usually of the miner caste and more sinister than the traditional kobold.

But anyone who considers the basic drives of man to see to what extent they may have been at play just here as inspiring spirits (or daemons or kobolds) will find that all of them have done philosophy at some time - and that every single one of them would like only too well to represent just itself as the ultimate purpose of existence and the legitimate master of all other drives.