GLRP:EMs:Royal Spies:2013:Labyrinth of Worlds:History of Tarna
Title: History of Tarna
Author: Bishop
I never expected to spend
my final days writing a
history of the world,
but I never expected to
waste away in a prison
camp in the Crogus
Mountains either.
Tarna was home to many different intelligent creatures, but the two largest populations were the goblins and humanity. Centuries of war and uneasy peace had set up a tension between the hordes of goblins and kingdoms of humanity. There was always a balance between two, so neither could gain advantage.
That changed a score and a half years ago. The goblins started a brutal war with humanity, one that was different than all that came before. The goblins had terrible magics, taught to them by a malevolent being from another world. When this voice first called out across the Void, several sensitive monks of my order dropped dead from the raw power behind it. I left my training to help with the war effort.
Human kingdom after kingdom fell to the goblins, until only Fyrna remained. I lead a small Resistance out of the barren wastes near the Crogus Mountains, hoping that Fyrna could turn the war around. I had some information from Milenus, a goblin who served one of the dictators of his people, that led me learn more about our enemy.
His people had been visited by an emissary of their Red Idol, a human woman named Mors Gotha. She claimed that with humanity almost conquered it was time for the goblin hordes to pay the tribute that was required.
The goblins paid for this with the blood and sweat of human labor.
I spent this time trying to learn more about this Mors Gotha, reaching out to people from other worlds and making allies. Of these, Fissif and Beatrice are dead. Mokpo has disappeared. Only Altara and Zoranthus remain. None were able to help my world as their own faced similar perils.
Eventually, the last human
prince, Felix, was
captured, and Fyrna fell
to the goblin hordes.
With the final front of
the war won, the goblins
focused on every pocket
of resistance. Most of us
were killed, but those
deemed interesting or
with useful knowledge or
skills were put into
prison camps.
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