Wrote a goblin myth for my campaign. Any ideas to spice it up?

thomasocourtney
thomasocourtney

https://alightinthedarknessbythomascourtney.wordpress.com/2018/02/10/the-great-goblin-epic-of-blax-and-the-parable-of-the-seven-virtues/

THE GREAT GOBLIN EPIC OF BLAX AND THE PARABLE OF THE SEVEN VIRTUES of DARKNESS

Once, before the age of man above, Before the age of the goblin below,

when the darkness hid the bloated lamp that hangs in the sky

There lived a great and vile Goblin King, Blax the Fetid.

Swollen, prideful. Fierce and lecherous Blax.

He smote the many usurpers who pilfered his dungheaps.

Those fiends who hid in the bowels of his lands,

He burned their flesh in his cauldrons,

and he took many of their sisters

and daughters and mothers for his wives.

Some he ate.

Blax the Crooked was cunning and corrupt.

He struck first and last. And always in the back.

His armies clawed out his tunnels

They filled his enemies’ burrows with their own offal and excrement.

Blax the Defiler spread his seed wide.

Of his distended brood, he kept the 14 cruelest

As watchful masters of his warrens.

And took more wives, more skulls and trophies.

Hoary and ancient, he married his seven turgid daughters

To his seven most abhorrent sons.

Seven pairs of his putrid seed.

Blax the Wicked knew they all coveted his [pile of skulls and trophies].

So Blax the Wary sent each pair [*] upon the surface world

In the time of the great darkness.

To bring him a treasure worthy of a Goblin King.

To the most wretched and perverse would he give his throne.

The first pair, Gelcuzz and Clut returned

with a box of the slaves’ ale [wine] so he may endulge in his gluttony,

Yet Blax saw to abstain from it themselves was to be weak.

And so he cooked them in his pots for a final meal.

Until they were jelly.

The second pair, Eeg and Steelk slunk

Until  they came to a dark lake and a shoreline thereof.

Where a [surface dweller] bathed.

They stole the creature and gave it to Blax for his lust.

Blax saw she was unspoiled though

In disgust of his kin, he slaughtered the second pair.

Zuzvoq and Slinx, the third pair,

Were more like their father, cunning and vile.

They captured slaves to fashion a great monument to Blax to indulge his pride.

When Blax looked upon it, though

And then at his humble children.

He smote their heads from their necks.

Knowing his great lust for coin and gem, the fourth pair

Phrunk and Sheeshka, brought him wealth from the [open lands]

so he may lust for more.

And of course, to give away such a treasure, one must be a fool.

So Blax roasted them on his spit until their flesh blistered and fried.

The fifth, Deatelch and Efush, bound

A tome of his foul and mighty deeds

For others to envy.

Yet Blax saw the generosity of the prize and was made enraged.

And so slew this pair as well.

Esxa and Bruig though were especially wrathful

Instead of raising a gift to their master, they plotted to kill Blax.

But Blax the Brutal waited secretly in patience knowing they were like their father.

And when he caught them in the act,

He peeled their skin away for sport.

The seventh and final pair, Blamshz and Atlash prepared nothing. In their sloth they watched their kin died, and grew fat from their feasting.

Near death, Blax saw the diligence of the weaker of his seed,

and when his depraved eyes closed he knew who would carry on his debauchery.

 

To the seventh, passed the seed of his dark dominion.

 

*[this literal term could not properly be translated. It is believed to represent the pair of a torch and it’s shadow cast]

Comments

  • Omegabase
    Omegabase
    Posts: 41

    I like it, vile and violent just as a goblin myth should be.  Maybe consider adding something about the gods or other divine angle (or profane in this case).  On a much bigger scope, think about a goblin creation story (real, or as imagined by goblins).

    In my campaign orcs and goblinoids are humans transformed by the fires of a fallen goddess passing through creation on her way to the hells.

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  • thomasocourtney
    thomasocourtney
    Posts: 14

    Very cool. Thanks for the advice, well recieved!

     

  • Robling
    Robling
    Posts: 18

    The Goblin Song 

     

    Goblins chew and goblins bite, 

    Goblins cut and goblins fight. 

    Stab the dog and cut the horse, 

    Goblins eat and take by force! 

     

    Goblins race and goblins jump. 

    Goblins slash and goblins bump. 

    Burn the skin and mash the head, 

    Goblins here and you be dead! 

     

    Chase the baby, catch the pup. 

    Bonk the head to shut it up. 

    Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed, 

    We be goblins! You be food! 

  • Omegabase
    Omegabase
    Posts: 41

    Hilarious, i'm using that for my own goblin tribe.  Credited to Robling the Goblin.

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