Legon’s Journal
10th Hematite, Summer 129
Goblins have come! They want my vault plans!! They must!! There’s no other fathomable explanation for their sudden arrival!!!
KILL THEM MY WARRIORS Oh right this is a book. The warriors shall be sent to destroy them!!!!
11th Hematite
I’m having the hammerer’s new room carved out across the stairway from my vault. Jails will be through his room, with statues and pictures and water and beds and, and, maybe not water. Bye!
14th Hematite
Our wrestlers tossed the goblins around like toys that bleed!! Zulban Pointyroofs the Peaceful Recluse of Laboring killed the hammerlord, so he’s getting that guys hammer and better armor.
19th Hematite
Humans have arrived and are unloading their goods!? Bah, I say, BAH!!! They’re after my plans . . . I HAVE NOT PATENTED THEM YET!!! Until then I must protect them . . . yes . . . protect.
27th Hematite
An Yortomes the Past Poetry the Titan has claimed this place as his home!! We cannot let him!! His hands are too callused and brutal to handle my machines!!!
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The events of the 5th Malachite, Summer 129
The apprentice merchant finally stood up to his master on this day, saying “Master, it’s terrible here. They’ve boxed us in for ‘protection,’ there are babbling and rotting dead elves in here, and no one’s even come to trade with us yet! In fact, I think the doors are locked! Look!” He shook the door knob to demonstrate. “No one has brought out any trade goods, either.
“Calm down, boy,” the master said, “I heard there was a Titan out there. If that is indeed the case, then I am happy to be in-”
*CLUNK*
At that moment a ballista bolt flew into the room through a fortification. It tore right through the master, then several others. Many of the humans were maimed or dead from the shot, but the wagons went unharmed. The apprentice heard a manic voice whisper outside; “damn, survivors . . .”