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Date Posted: 18:21:21 04/27/01 Fri
Author: chobs
Subject: The history
In reply to: gobbo the goblin 's message, "dark goblins......" on 17:39:28 04/27/01 Fri

The Dark Goblins have become the greatest threat to human and goblinkind ever known, yet their history began as a shining light in goblin history.

Some 5,000 years ago many Goblin Empires began to feel the influence of human encroachment on their territories. None more so than the Vladoraggan Empire in Europe. The Goblins were horrified to see the destructive actions of humans, cutting great swathes through quiet forests, ripping minerals from the earth, seemingly wanton destruction of wildlife.

In time the human activities were bought to the attention of the Great Goblin of the time, Zarrangggelburrugg III. Although humans were physically superior, their technology at the time was vastly inferior, yet Zarrangggelburrugg was reluctant to go to war. After centuries of conflict with the trolls, goblins generally didn't have the stomach for more war. Sensing this, Zarrangggelburrugg decided to allow the humans to go their own way at least for the moment. The forests were big enough after all. The humans could never destroy whole forests.

Goblins had always hidden themselves from humans, they were far too big, looked too similar to trolls for comfort and often re-acted irrationally to seeing goblins. Yet Zarrangggelburrugg sent emissaries to discuss their concerns. Many were never seen again, others returned terribly injured, unable to even meet the human leaders. After that no other attempt was made to contact the humans. The goblins retreated further back into the forests.

Yet, not all goblins were to accept that there was nothing they could do. A holy goblin (whose name has been lost over time)watched helplessly from the shadows of the forest as a tribe of humans tore his abbey down to be used for firewood. Lost were sacred relics, tomes of immense age, the last remnants of an ancient,dying religion. The goblin wept bitterly until night fell, then with all caution he crept into the human camp and recovered what relics he could find. Shrouded in misery, he stole into the night swearing revenge on humankind.

In time this goblin was to found the Great Holy Church of Retribution. Initially this new church, based on the old gospels of peace and brotherly love became the most vital force for assisting goblins who were the victims of human actions. The Great Goblin himself honoured the monks of the church several times. But the need for revenge burned in the heart of the now old, holy goblin. On his deathbed, he gathered all his monks to him and told them of his great vision, a world free of humans, and a return of goblin glory.Gone now were the axioms of his old church, still claiming a gospel of environmental respect but tainted by a solid declaration of resistance to all things human. So began the slow gravitation of the dispossessed, the angry, the frightened and the vengeful towards the new gospels of the Great Holy Church of the Retribution. Over many millennia, the old gods of peace and tranquility were slowly corrupted into vehement, hostile gods focused on the total destruction of humanity. Priests became the Knights of K'tang- warrior priests versed equally well in church teachings, weapons and martial arts.

And so, the Dark Goblins were born. Unable to match humankind in military strength, they usually rely on subterfuge and cunning to undermine human civilization. History is littered with examples of Dark Goblin influence on human affairs. There have been times when the Dark Goblins have battled directly with human armies. In the 113 B.C the barbarian Germanic nations of the Cimbri and Teutones clashed with the Roman armies lead by Papirius Carboin modern day Yugoslavia, beginning the Cimbric War. Assisted by the Dark Goblins these two nations smashed any Roman army that tried to hinder them. History has credited the Germans with the total destruction of several Roman Armies in the shadowy northern forests, but in reality it was the Dark Goblins, supported by large contingents of troll allies who ambushed the Roman armies and annihilated them. The Dark Goblins were ecstatic, their carefully laid plans were all coming together.
The last of any real Roman resistance was crushed by the Germans at the battle of Arausio (Orange in Provence) in 105 B.C. leaving the whole of the Italian peninsula wide open for invasion. Yet despite all the Dark Goblin protestations the Cimbri marched west to invade Spain. The Dark Goblins tried frantically to bring their own legions together to finish what the Cimbri would not but lacked the necessary resources to make the final assault. In disgust the Dark Goblins abandoned the Germans to their own fate, and in 102 B.C. the great Roman Caius Marius annihilated the Teutonesat the battle of Aquae Sextiae. The next year, Marius joined his forces with Lutatius Catulus and together they annihilated the Cimbri at Vercellae (modern Vercelli). The Dark Goblins' plans for the destruction of the Roman Republic were put on hold for another 500 years.

Not all Dark Goblin efforts were to be unsuccessful. A little more than one hundred years ago the Olmecs of South America were unknown to humanity, yet they were to create a thriving civilization in Middle America in the first millennia B.C, the precursors to the many other human civilizations that were to spring up in the Americas. For humankind, the Olmecs remain a mystery, an enigmatic race who suddenly disappeared, leaving entire cities for the steaming tropical jungles to slowly consume.
Modern thinking tends to blame soil exhaustion as the reason for this civilization's apparent failure. The Olmec farmers worked the soil until they could no longer grow anything from it and were forced to abandon their cities. We goblins know the truth however.
A secretive Dark Goblin sect, the Dark Brotherhood of the Blood, forced the entire Olmec population to flee their cities, one by one in a state of utmost panic in June/July A.D. 45. The Dark Brotherhood had spent many years terrifying the population with ghostly visitations, creating bad omens and skillfully manipulating these superstitious peoples' fears. The final stroke was a highly successful 'manifestation' of the gods of the underworld who warned the Olmecs to flee their cities or face the wrath of a host of evil and malevolent gods. The Olmecs fled in fear, never to return.(Similar tactics on later human civilizations in that area were unsuccessful however).

Dark Goblins have been responsible or at least partially responsible for the fall of other human civilizations. Among the most successful have been the destruction of the Khmer city of Angkor in the dense jungles of northern Cambodia, the eventual fall of Rome (the Dark Goblins' greatest achievement) , even the 1917 Russian Revolution was partially engineered by the Dark Goblin saboteurs, the nefarious K'tarra Gen'dar (the Betrayers of Trust).

Not all human tragedies are engineered by the Dark Goblins but many are. Even the 1911 sinking of R.M.S Titanic can be traced to Dark Goblin tampering. On the night of the fateful collision with an iceberg, the lookout for that night couldn't find his binoculars so was forced to attend his watch without them. Yes, you guessed it. A young Dark Goblin by the name of Gruppa had stolen the binoculars. With those binoculars, perhaps the collision could have been avoided? Gruppa lives still, a Dark Goblin hero.

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Re: The history -- tofton, 00:46:27 04/28/01 Sat