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Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« on: September 25, 2012, 07:24:07 pm »

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 The living legend known as the goblin Nguslu Hellwarmth begins as all great stories do, before they take place. Since the beginning of civilization on the The Destined Planet The Poison of Grooves has been assaulted by all manner of perils, from psychotic dwarves to beasts of legend. After years of off and on war between the Grooves and every manner of dwarf, peace was no longer accepted. In the early spring of 64 The War of Tempests began.

 Like every other war the battles were punctuated with hundreds of dwarves fighting a few dozen goblins and walking into empty settlements. This time though peace wasn't accepted after a few pillages. The dwarves of The Bridge of Blunting waged an insane war with a mostly dead civilization.

 The first battle occured in the Grooves' capital of Splashhatred, where the biggest goblin army ever assembled in the war lost. The battle was a staggering 225 dwarves +10 auxiliary versus 46 goblins +17 auxiliary(12 were trolls). During the battle the goblin king was shot and killed. Every battle after consisted of a steadily growing dwarven army marching on undefended or poorly defended dark fortresses. There were sometimes more than 8 pillages a year with battles being less numerous and more sporadic. Over the course of 23 years the dwarven army had a heavy goblin contingent with increasingly smaller pockets of Groove resistence .
 In 86 the last goblin king, Zolak Doomtone, rose to power and lost his nose in his first battle. By now the odds were heavily stacked in dwarven favour, a paltry 5 goblinish forces versus over 400 of the dwarven legion. Surprising everyone, Doomtone managed a retreat and became the first king in the war to have survived a battle, he then went on to survive 2 more. Over the next two years he and his band of 3(2 other goblins and one troll) were chased across the old Groove settlements by the dwarves. The met their end at Splashhatred nearly completing the cycle of the war.

 In the early spring of 89 the The Bridge of Blunting sought to finally encompass The Poison of Grooves by occupying the capital... permenantly. It was there that the last survivor of a once glorious civilization crowned herself Queen of a dying kingdom. The dwarven legions seiged the capital in a battle forever known as The Outrageous Onslaught. As they swarmed into the palace they were met by the Queen, who had no prior battle experience. In a show of rage at a once soaring people lost to the sands of time the Goblin Queen Nguslu Hellwarmth the Shady Sand of Eagles unsheathed her sword and lay into them. She single handedly felled 229 dwarves and 25 auxiliary in a siege of 479 mostly dwarven soldiers; additionally she wounded 10 dwarves, 2 of which are now missing an eye, 1 now missing an ear. She then defeated the dwarven general despite having her left arm impaled during the battle. The dwarves beat a quick retreat and accepted her terms of peace. It is now the year of 210, the Goblin Queen still rules her little pocket of the world. Unchanged by time.


Trivia about The Destined Planet
  • Before the end Splashhatred had been pillaged 13 times with Scouredjackals being pillaged the most at 25 times.
  • In a war with 143 battles the goblins won once, and it was The Outrageous Onsluaght.
  • 549 of The Poison of Grooves died in the war and 526 of The Bridge of Blunting died, 254 of which were done by The Queen alone in one battle.
  • Dwarven general Ingish Steambolts lost 1 battles out of her 6, and it was The Outrageous Onslaught.
  • Nguslu Hellwarmth the Shady Sand of Eagles is 290 years old (born 80 years before history), has ruled 121yrs, and is apparently a Lye Maker.
  • The War of Tempests (above) lasted 25 years exactly.
  • At the current day the Grooves consist of 2133 Goblins, 94 Dwarves, 63 Dwarf Prisoners, and 2 Humans
  • The new capital of Flyshaft consists of 7 goblins
  • The Poison of Grooves have never started a war.
  • The single biggest battle by death toll in history was The Onslaught of Talons waged by humans on ratkin(modded). 883 human civ losses and 4021 ratkin losses.
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Re: Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2012, 07:34:23 pm »

Cool shit dude. Not a lot of goblin legends worth telling.

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Re: Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2012, 07:59:02 pm »

Fun fact: Battles in worldgen are fought by having the first soldier in each army fight, then the next soldier in the loser's army fights the winner, repeat until one side loses.
If Mrs. Hellwarmth had no combat experience before, though, this is really impressive.
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Re: Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2012, 08:25:24 pm »

Something about that I just find adorable. Armies queuing up in lines waiting to fight one on one
with the enemy. Kind of makes me appreciate Tholtig a lot less what with that version's unlimited skill
level bug. In retrospect, it seems like a tale of prodigious elf breeding.


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Re: Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2012, 08:47:57 pm »

That's just how battles are simulated, and anyways Tholtig still didn't pass out from exhaustion or an unlucky chipped bone.
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Re: Hellwarmth The Goblin Queen- A Story from Legends
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2012, 12:01:37 pm »

I think it's a pretty good simulation for fighting in a bottleneck, like a narrow tunnel.
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