Editing Setting:Unified Setting/Goblins (section)

=Fall of the Goblins=
Roughly 800 years ago, the Goblins were a major superpower. Based on a small continent in what is now the Sea of Ghosts, they possessed advanced magical skills, especially in the powerful field of necromancy.

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''"Long ago in time forgot, the ancient necromancer lords searched to hard and far for the knowledge in the dark, and woke the nameless horrors that sleep beyond the world. Those beings came and the gods had war with them, a fight for the survival of the world and all its past, present and future, for they outer gods would devour time itself. Yet those ancient necromancers were the ones who finally drove them back: for they took the body of a fallen god, his head and lower body crushed to naught and his hands sliced clean away, and woke his flesh again with the very power of their enemies. Thus risen was the Phantom Shadow Beast, Bongo Bongo, and deep below the earth he beat the rhythm that tied those ineffable horrors to time, forcing them to flee or else to age and die.

''All the mortal world forgets him now, save only in the dustiest of ancient necrotexts, and in the darkest rumors of the dwarves: for when the people of the earth venture deep, beyond the clang of anvils and the echo of words in their halls, to the deepest, darkest silence of the uttermost depths, they may hear the distant rhythm that echoes up from beneath the world. The beat of Bongo Bongo.

''He is the One that leads the Dance of Ruin. This is the giant necromantic effect that spawns the necrostorms whenever someone else casts necromancy. Incidentally, it also keeps the [[Setting:Unified Setting/Illithid|Illith]] and Goblin Lich Kings at the bottom of the ocean. If he ever stops, the world will know silence. For a time."''

The creation of an undead god saved the world, but doomed the Goblins. Either the strain of casting the spell, a final retributive strike from the Outer Gods, or just the world itself convulsing in horror at what had been done, the Goblin homeland was destroyed in a cataclysm. Sinking beneath the waves, subsidence and tidal waves expanded small saltwater marshes into the vast swamps inhabited by the [[Setting:Unified Setting/Toltecatl|Toltecatl]] and the [[Setting:Unified Setting/Doobies|Doobies]].

The Goblin lich-kings were trapped by their own creation, forced to haunt the sunken tomb-cities of what was once a great race. There they do battle with the secretive, aquatic race known as the Illith. The Illith kingdoms were devastated more than any surface nation by the fall of the Goblins and they have used looted magi-tech and their own bio-engineering to create a war machine that they are now using to raid coastal villages for their own arcane purposes.