I popped over to Legends to check her out. The year is 1051.
She's a seven-hundred-and-thirty-year-old goblin vampire, cursed in 687 at the age of 366. She has over 1900 kills. She's been the queen of my dwarven civilization, The Primitive Rock, since 466 at the age of 145. Her mother is still apparently living, but her father died one year before she became the queen of the dwarves. Her husband is still living, and they're the same age. Of their four children, only the youngest (a son) is still living. Over thirteen hundred of her kills have been humans and dwarves in the mountainhome, Bookmurder, which has stood since year 1.
However, while checking through various legends pages, I found another individual who caught my attention:
Bomrek Constructswims.
Born in the year 54 to his loving parents, Bomrek Flyfortresses and Dastot Ravenwhip, in the tiny dwarven outpost of Orderurns, neither he nor his parents knew he was destined for greatness. He married at the age of twelve, to a dwarf who had been abducted by goblins when she was a child. (She was rescued after some four years of captivity and reunited to her parents.) Perhaps it was her influence which later led him to become the greatest dwarven general of all time.
After four years of farming for The Primitive Rock in Hammerroof, where he and his wife settled after their marriage, Bomrek became the general of The Primitive Rock and moved to the mountainhome, Bookmurder.
His first military campaign began when he was nineteen, in the year 73. The Primitive Rock assaulted the Dark Fortress Entrylie of The Occult Poisons, a goblin group. In a decisive victory, Bomrek and his forces overwhelmed the goblin defenders and pillaged the fortress. It was his first taste of revenge on behalf of his wife's four years of captivity, and it would not be his last.
Despite the thrill of war, though, Bomrek returned to Bookmurder and lived a peaceful life for some time. He began to worship Istrath, the Jewels of Gilding, a deity associated with trade and wealth, most often taking the form of a male dwarf. In the year 80, he descended into the depths of the earth and tamed the voracious cave crawlers he found there before returning to Bookmurder. He did so again three years later, this time taming the cave crocodiles. Over the rest of his life, he made several more trips down into the caverns, taming giant toads in 89, elk birds in 99, and giant rats in 133.
In 86, he became obsessed with his own mortality, an obsession which would ultimately be fulfilled (although not as he had expected).
In 88, Bomrek realized that he had not fully avenged his wife's years in captivity, so he led another assault against Entrylies. The intervening fifteen years had not been enough time for the goblins to prepare; Bomrek's tactics swept aside their defenses as though they were paper, and the fortress was pillaged for a second time. In 89, Bomrek attacked a different goblin civilization - The Persuasive Lie - at Howlflies, winning outright. In 100 and 112, The Primitive Rock's forces annihilated goblin defenders at Howlflies and Grizzlymonster.
But in 149, Bomrek decided to finish what he had started. That year and each successive year until 155, he led the Primitive Rock's forces against - not one - but FOUR different Goblin Fortresses. He struck at Howlflies, Grizzlymonster, Nightmarebasement, and finally the Persuasive Lies' central fortress of Ghoultunnel.
Each time, Bomrek sat behind his lines, refusing to take part in the battles except to order his forces over, around, and through every blockade behind which the goblins tried to hide. Seven times he went on a tour of battle through those four fortresses, annihilating anything that got in his way, but never staining his own hands with the blood of his enemies. He was too good for that.
And for the next fifty years, he sat on his laurels, content with the destruction he had wrought upon the goblins, still seeking after immortality.
In 205, in an unfortunate accident related to his seeking, Bomrek profaned The Abbey of Fortune, a temple to Istrath. He cursed Bomrek to wander the earth in the form of a lemur every full moon for the rest of time. Bomrek had found immortality.
Sadly, it was not to last. Four years after he was cursed and fled from Bookmurder, Bomrek's wife died of old age and sorrow, and in 211, Bomrek himself was sought out and slain by Alath Plankcolumn, a former farmer from Howlflies who had, no doubt, heard of Bomrek's many massacres of his people. It was an ignoble end for such a master tactician.
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