My thought is threefold 1) what do the gods think, 2) what does the leadership of the Aegis think, 3) what does the common man think.
1. Only Bjorn can say whether goblins are accepted as priests/worshipers by the human gods. If not then the churches are very unlikely to be well disposed to them, if they are - or some divine message of a change comes down, then that again makes a huge difference - missionaries replace paladins.
2. Herein lies politics. As leader of a church with a remit of militant defense, the concern is about mixed messages. How can Robhan say 'be vigilant and guard your homes against raiders' when simultaneously saying 'goblins are perfectly normal people, you are safe with them as neighbours'? how can he say 'Ghieste is threatened by goblins of the Spiderfell, let us send our children to fight and die defending the people' while also saying 'goblins are no better or worse than Anuireans'? While unfortunate for 'the few' goblins who are good, or just want to avoid trouble, the need to defend the children of the Andu against the goblin realms forces him to take a fairly stern stance.
A rather unfortunate catch-22, goblins cannot prove that they are good, skilled, virtuous etc unless the Anuireans allow them to do so as a member of society. The Anuireans will not welcome them as members until they prove themselves good, virtuous, etc...
3. a modified extract from some fluff I sent poor Niels (he of the worn off ears) on how I perceive race relations are likely to go...
Bigotry - right and wrong
Think about the issues between white (anuirean) and black (goblin) in America today. Now imagine that everything that the worst rednecks of 50 years ago said was true, they are treacherous, they are lazy, they steal unless constantly watched, they breed incessantly, they take the jobs of honest poor men, they are insolent, they are crude, they eat people (not sure if this one is RoE canon or not), they worship false gods.
Now say that instead of 2-3 centuries of slavery, you have 20-30 centuries of wars and raids - goblins are not just inferior, they are dangerous, every child is told to do as they are told or the goblins will carry them away, every war hero fought/died bravely against the villainous goblins, every heroic play has its goblin villain, every family has a list going back generations of dead heroes to avenge. Even now, centuries after abolition the hatred is a vivid memory in some places. With goblins it is ten times worse and will last well beyond human lifetimes.
Now add economics and politics. The goblins are poor, they have zero investment capital (it is with the churches/nobility mostly), that means that the boss in a business is inevitably a human, the learned are always human, those from the old school with all the plum government posts are always human... those prejudices just get stronger as the years go by and the goblins sense of victimhood rightly grows - why work when the humans get the profit, why serve when there is no chance to rule? The law is a weapon used to keep us down...
If goblins are given rank and station, what will the nobility say when a goblin accuses a noble maiden of a crime and the judge is a goblin? Green hands on white thighs, goblins look to their own, they want revenge, you can't trust them with one of us...
So even if a ruler says 'I hath decreed, from this moment forth peace shall rein', the hate and prejudice will remain and not simply evaporate. Frankly, relations are going to be godawful. The goblins will not be accepted (aside from a few 'pets' who 'prove' the others are just lazy and vicious) for centuries - and will not accept the humans either. Hatred will be rife, ancient feuds common.
What does the regent do when local law clashes - the goblin has a legal right to take the chicken, it was running in the field and is thus is his in goblin law, the human has a right to the chicken, it was on his farm/he bought it - the law of the king generally doesn't go down to that sort of level. At peasant concern level it is common-law for justice handed out generally by the mob, except the law isn't common to both parties. If the goblins are equal then so surely is their culture - and the ideals of their culture (might makes right, look after #1, you have what you can take and hold) are fundamentally opposed to the ideals human culture (reciprocal debts, be honest, etc) - are the goblins just to be told 'everything you say and do is wrong, learn from your betters now?'
Expect constant beatings, 'murders', 'raids', 'reprisals', etc, etc - from both sides. Expect corrupt officials turning a blind eye or actively helping out thugs, expect goblins (rightly) complaining that their complaints are ignored and (wrongly) complaining that they are being discriminated against (the human craftsman will probably be better and certainly fit in better with the workforce). Expect naive young folk to seek missionary duty to 'help the goblins' to be murdered, raped, eaten, etc to huge uproar amongst the great and good - something must be done! Expect courts to rule that a goblins word in evidence is less persuasive than a human's, that any human killing a goblin is defending themselves - and any goblin killing a human is committing murder and so on down the ugly list of hate and prejudice.
Robhan can order his domain otherwise and push the 'law is colourblind' angle, and as law is a religious obligation to his people he may even have some success, but most of the Aegis will consider Robhan a fool for ignoring the ‘clear’ guilt born and bred to goblins. Think the deep south and local law approach to the Klan - the people attracted to the legal posts were precisely the people who formed and led the Klan, good family men who wanted their culture and community to be strong and endure and their families to be safe from the brutes...
Goblins, hill-kittens of the land… We need a PETA in the game to brush up the goblins image, so far Neils seems to have volunteered...
