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==Known Night Goblins==
 
==Known Night Goblins==
[[Kgaelgart]], [[Mordeth]], [[Moxie]], [[Quickie]], [[Rumble]], [[Vex]]
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[[Image:Quick 3.jpg|thumb|375px|left|[[Quickie]]]]
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[[Image:Kgaelgart 1.jpg|thumb|500px|left|[[Kgaelgart]]]]
[[Image:Moxie Fest-16.jpg|thumb|375px|right|[[Moxie]]]]
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[[Image:WikiMordeth.JPG|thumb|500px|right|[[Mordeth]]]]
[[Image:WikiMordeth.JPG|thumb|350px|right|[[Mordeth]]]]
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[[Image:Moxie Fest-16.jpg|thumb|500px|left|[[Moxie]]]]
[[Image:Beth1.jpg|thumb|375px|center|[[Vex]]]]
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[[Image:Quick 3.jpg|thumb|500px|right|[[Quickie]]]]
[[Image:Battle of Pyke Season 2.jpg|thumb|275px|left|[[Rumble]]]]
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[[Image:Rumble Thaw2.jpg|thumb|500px|left|[[Rumble]]]]
[[Image:Kgaelgart 1.jpg|thumb|400px|center|[[Kgaelgart]]]]
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[[Image:33109030994 a0ecdf4a2e o.png|thumb|500px|right|[[Squooshie McKleith|Squoosh]]]]
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[[Image:Beth1.jpg|thumb|500px|left|[[Vex]]]]

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History

The Night Goblyns were started by a goblyn Khadine named Rashmish who led her tribe underground to escape the ruin at the end of the war with the gods. Rashmish was a True Goblyn, which means that she was alive before war began and survived through it from beginning to end (her soul was intact and undamaged by Baulk). She was one of the first Khadines, meaning she was tested by Skribbit himself, when he was still a mortal goblyn. During the war she made her way to the Elven afterlife and stole the eyes from their weaver of fate, leaving it blind and granting her foresight. When Rashmish returned from the other world, she had visions of Neb being killed by elemental beasts, of Sifu being cursed and changed, of Skribbit, burning in rage and streaking across the sky, and of Reth, chained and condemned before the other gods. She rushed to the goblyn stronghold to find that these were not just visions of the future, and that the first three had already come to pass. She finds Reth, who is preparing for the final attack on the gods. Reth realizes what is going on with Rashmish's visions and forbids her from telling him his own fate, but instead tells her to use her visions of the future and do what she thinks is best for the survival of the goblyns. Filled with bitterness, she watches the great goblyn army march away to their doom, before leading her own tribe down deep below the mountains, to survive and grow strong.

Defining Traits

The Night Goblyns descend from Rashmish and her tribe. It makes sense that other goblyns would have fled beneath the mountains over the years and joined the Night Goblyns. They are not a different species from normal goblyns, but have a different culture. They wear hoods when above ground because they hate the sun and it is painful to their eyes, since they live their lives underground. They have a love of psychedelic mushrooms. Over the years if they eat too many of these mushrooms (and who wouldn’t) they can become dangerously insane or unstable. They wear the checks and dags (triangles) because they eat so many mushrooms, that the lines of everything begin to blur. So checks and dags are so that you can tell where the edges of the goblyn are, and that they are therefore real. They are still goblyns, but with a different history from surface goblyns in that they never grew weak or cowardly.

Night Goblin Witchdoktor.jpg

Physiology & Culture

As all goblyns are the same (they have the same souls, They all go through the River of Souls and get chomped by Baulk, etc.) their actual genetics do not differ all that much and calling them a sub-species would be wrong. Physically the only differences come from side effects of their diet, which mostly consists of different fungi that they cultivate underground, and other Night Goblyns.

After the Exodus underground, the goblyns began to worship the Obellys (the eye Rashmish retrieved from the elvish underworld) and much of their culture focuses on the eye that tells the future. The Obellys is currently held in the underground city of Pandemonium where it's power is used to fuel the madness and insanity of the Fanatics that preside over it.

- "We can use them...like a child can use a firearm" -Tonberry on the ability for goblyns to use the Obellys

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Fanatics

Fanatics are the ultimate disciples of Rashmish and are the embodiment of rabid insanity itself. The most potent Madcap Mushrooms are reserved for them and they act as leaders both spiritually, as well as other night goblyns knowing not to be in front of them when they get that look in their eyes. They traditionally wield giant balls as symbols of the Obellys

A story tells of Fanatic Nanakk who carved out the underground city of Pandemonium with his bare hands in a frenzy of madness. Muttering in tongues and giggling maniacally, he wove goblin majik about him. The majik shaped the stone around his rampage and parted rivers of magma in his path until he reached the top of the mountain, breaking a hole in the ceiling, revealing the crescent moon. Nanakk's eyes wide in wonderment, like a moth drawn to a flame, he fell from the height he had created and splattered on the floor of the city he had carved.

Another story tells of Fanatic Rublilax and Fanatic Shazzit who in a siege of the Dwarf Mountain fortress of Era'bon waded into a platoon of Dwarves handcuffed to each other, using only the other as weapons in a spinning flurry of iron chain, green skin, and rabid rage.

Cannibalism

Cannibalism has become a staple in Night Goblyn society as they see it as absorbing the power of the fallen, as well as ritual showing they are not afraid of Baulk's hunger that they will face upon their own reincarnation. It is considered a great disrespect (and waste of food) to not eat a fallen night goblyn. It is considered a sacred burial rite to be consumed by their kin.

Often pairs will form among them, and it is considered very rude to eat another goblyn's partner before they are finished with them (i.e. members of pairs will get first dibs on each other)

Alphabet

Many aspects of goblin life had to be adapted to their new home underground. One significant thing change is the goblyn alphabet and writing system is different. Due to the complications of recreating the goblin characters on stone (which, at first, was all they had to write on) a new alphabet evolved overtime. Commonly called Low Babel (I'm getting to it -Rumble) and the old alphabet grew into a revered holy script used only by a Witchdoktor or a Fanatics. The language stayed the same, but the script changed.

Low Babel takes inspiration from its father script Babelspeak (I'm also getting to this -Rumble) as well as the rhunic style of dwarves, whom Night Goblyns live in close proximity to (and war with constantly). It includes 32 letters and can be written and read either left to right, or right to left depending on the facing of the letters. Due to extra letters being added for specific sounds many words change spelling and are often shortened.


Known Night Goblins

Kgaelgart, Mordeth, Moxie, Quickie, Rumble, Squoosh, Vex

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