Bugbear were a huge humanoid race distantly related to, but larger and stronger than, Goblin and Hobgoblin. Bugbears appear in the nightmare stories of many races - large, hairy beasts that creep through the shadows as silent as cats. If you walk alone in the woods, such a beast will reach out of the bushes and strangle you. Many scholars believed that bugbears and goblins were both bred by the hobgoblins as slave races, with bugbears serving as elite soldiers.
Bugbears reach adulthood around age 16 and can live to about 75.