Aralis - The Islanders

The Goblins are travellers from another Plane, who came to the Island shortly after the first of the Shipwrecked arrived - but, unlike the Shipwrecked, they seem to have the means to come and go at will.

For the most part, the Goblins are mischievous, troublesome creatures, whose pranks can be as harmful as they can be amusing. The younger Goblins seem overly unwise, and certainly look at the world in a much different way than any of the Shipwrecked do.

Yet, for all the troubles the Goblins may cause, they have also proven to be invaluable allies to the Shipwrecked, providing them with information they could not obtain in any other fashion, and the chance of learning of their enemies in combat before having to face them on the actual field of battle. Yet certainly the Goblin Games - of any kind - often prove to be a two-edged sword, and the stories of the Goblins all contain a lie hidden within the truth.

Bartleby, one of the more 'reasonable' of the Goblins and well-liked by many in the Stoackade, has aided the Shipwrecked often in the past by acting as a Channel through which other beings are summoned to tell the stories that the Shipwrecked have requested told. He has also been a source of information, and acted at times as an intermediary between the Goblin Court and the Shipwrecked. Which is why it was all the more terrible to learn that Bartleby was responsible for the death of the Goblin King, and the events surrounding that occurrence.

The Shipwrecked managed to earn the alliance of the Goblins, and have attended gatherings in the Goblins' own realm. Most recently, the Shipwrecked secured that relationship with the marriage of two of their own - Kaslia and Aelycan - to the Goblin King and his daughter, the Princess Hermione (respectively).

Many of the Shipwrecked also allied themselves with one of the Noble Estates of the Goblin Court, receiving boons in return for aiding that house. Whereas the younger goblins seem little more than pranksters, the Goblin Court moves in its own circles of intrigue. And, as the Shipwrecked discovered to their surprise, the Realm of the Goblin King consists of many strange and unusual creatures, denizens the likes of which some of them have never seen. The Goblin King and his daughter are, in fact, Elves - related somehow to the Feydakin, and bearing marks of both Light and Dark.

The Goblin King has proven to be a powerful ally and has provided information, aid, and the ability to remove Curses to the Shipwrecked. He had been slain by the Yama (as a result of a trap laid for him and others by Bartlbeby) and his spirit Inflicted by the accursed, condemning the pieces of his soul to the void between worlds. The Shipwrecked recently journeyed to this Shadowed Place to restore the Goblin King, though they did so with the aid of a potion given to them by Bartleby. The Goblin King has returned to life, but whether there are any ill side-effects has yet to be determined.

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