I Overheard A Rowdy Bunch Of Goblins Talking About Goblin Legends
They Were Boisterous In Who Was Truly A Hero And Who Was A Fake
Their Conversation Became Heated As They Debated
The Subject Of Their Debate Was The Infamous Geist The Paleskin
Even As A Human I Had Heard His Name Uttered With Trepidation
Once I Had Heard The Name Of This Living Goblin Legend
I Turned To View The Group Of Goblins Debating
I Noticed There Were 2 Green Noble Goblins A Male And Female
There Were 3 Yellow Skin Male Peasants Each More Filthy Than The Next
Surprisingly There Was Also A Female Blue Skin Mountain Goblin
As Well As A Gray Skin Male Subterranean Goblin
I Watched As The 3 Yellow Skins Tried To Bully The Gray Skin
Into Agreement With Them Against The Green Skins And The Blue Skin
He Seemed Reluctant To Side With One Group Or The Other
I Approached The Group Interested In How Goblins Portrayed The Elusive Geist
All 7 Of The Goblins Looked At Me Warily As I Stood At Their Table
The Male Noble Then Asked Me What It Was That I Wanted
I Informed Him That I Had Overheard The Mention Of Geist
And That I Was Interested To See How Goblins Portrayed Him
The Yellow Skins Snickered And The Rest Fell Silent
One Of The Yellow Skins Began With A Question
He Asked If I Knew Anything About Goblin Culture
I Answered That There Were 4 Varieties Of Goblins
And That Any Goblins Who Lived In The Cities With Humans
Were Then Assigned A Class
Purple Hats Were For Leadership Roles
Red Hats Were For Engineering Or Servant Roles
And Black Hats Were The Undesirables
Only Able To Do The Lowest Of The Low Jobs
The Yellow Skin Interjected
That What I Said Wasn't Knowing About Goblins
It Was Only What The Humans Ordered Goblins To Do
That I Didn't Know The True Aptitude Of Goblinkin
I Asked Him To Educate Me Then
The Male Noble Held Up A Hand At The Yellow Skin
He Turn His Elfin Face Towards Me
He Smiled At Me Then Said
That In Order For Me To Understand The Story Of Geist
That I Needed To Understand The Culture Of Goblinkin
He Then Proceeded To Tell Me How Originally All Goblins Were Green Skinned
That Long Ago Goblins Settled In Different Areas
Some Settled On The Mountains
Where Their Scales Thickened And Softened To Hold Warmth In
Their Green Skin Faded To A Pale Blue
The Males Black Hair Began To Sprout From Their Faces
Their Gray Eyes Adjusted To The Ambient Light
Their Pointed Noses Became A Little Broader
The Mountain Goblins Kept Up A Traditional Goblin Way Of Life
Avoid Danger And Help Anyone Who Wasn't A Threat
It Was Rare To Find A Mountain Goblin In A City
They Often Would Shy Away From Humans
Out Of Fear Of Being Enslaved
That Fear Was Justified To Them
Since They Would Often Hear Tales From Their Yellow Cousins Of Life In The Cities
There Were Then The Ones Who Went Underground
They Yearned To Learn The Ways Of Dwarvenkin
In The Lack Of Light And Harshness Below
The Subterranean Goblins Scales Hardened And Grayed
Their Eyes Darkened To Black And Began To Glow A Bright Green In The Dark
Often The Glow Of A Subterranean Goblins Eyes Gave Him Away In The Dark
Their Once Proud Black Hair Paled To A Bright White
And Their Mane Of Hair Thinned To A Patch At The To Of Their Head
These Goblins Learned The Basics Of Smithing From The Dwarves
Only To Then Drive The Craft In A Different Direction
Where Dwarvenkin Made Large Intricate Machine
Goblins Made Small Complex One
For Every 2 handed Sword A Dwarf Made
A Goblin Made A Serrated Dagger Instead
Often You Would Find Dwarves And Goblins Debating Different Ways Of Smithing
The Goblins And Dwarves Shared A Close Relationship
Gray Skinned Goblins Avoided The Surface At All Costs
Often Trading With The Dwarves Instead
They Had Heard Tales Even In The Underground
About Their Yellow Skinned Cousins Plight
I Interrupted And Asked How This History Lesson Related To Geist
The Female Noble Answered Me
She Said That If I Didn't Understand How Goblins Viewed Themselves
And Only Held The View Of A Human
That Goblins Were All Scaly Snarling Bloodthirsty Slaves
Which Wasn't The Point
For All Of Goblinkin's Differences
They Were All One Race
Not Just The Yellow Skins That Humans Thought Of
And Even Looked Down On Calling Them Hobgoblins
She Explained That This Human Term
Was The Harshest Insult One Could Give A Goblin
Since It Meant To All Goblins
That The Goblin Insulted Was Considered Less Than An Animal
I Was Surprised by This Admission
The Male Noble Continued
Now The Ignorant Term You Humans Came Up With For Our Yellow Skinned Cousins
Was Merely The Beginning Of Their Plight
Originally The Yellow Skins And We Green Skins Had A Beneficial Relationship
The Yellow Skins Kept The Villages Going ran And Defended Everything
While We Nobles Kept Communications Between All 4 Goblin Tribes
We Tried To Unify All The Tribes We Were In The Process Of Building A Citadel
It Was Going To Be The Goblin Homeland
Then You Humans Showed Up
We Weren't Finished With Our Project
The Yellows In A Panic Sealed Us Away In Our Citadel
While You Humans Took Them Away As Slaves
We Spent Years Still In Communication With The Blues And Grays
As We Learned About Your Classification Of The Yellows
How You Separated Them Into The Red Hats, The Purple Hats, And The Black Hats
You Coerced Our Yellow Skins To Turn On Each Other
You Had The Purple Hats Bully The Black Hats
You Ran The Red Hats Ragged
After A Few Generations This Lifestyle Became Ingrained
We Green Skins Couldn't Keep Our Silence Any Longer
We began To Send Emmisaries To Your Human Cities
To Beseech You Leader On Our Yellow Skinned Cousins Plights
At First You Took Us For Meddlesome Elves
Unable To Even Recognize Our Pointed Noses And Scaly Skin
Then You Tried To Enslave Us As Well
That Was When You Turned The Yellows On Us Lead By Human Generals
The Yellows Had Adapted To Your Way Of Life
And You Thought Nothing Of A Little Goblin War
Just To Survive We Needed To Call On The Aid Of Our Brethren
Pieces Of Our Dream For A Goblin Homeland Were Realized
As The Blues And Grays Helped Us Fight Our War For Freedom
We Tried To Get The Yellows To Rebel From You Humans
But You Had Broken Their Wills To Resist Over The Generations
This Was The World That Geist Was Born Into
The World That Geist Would Change
Is It So Hard To See Why Goblinkin Find Him A Hero
I Said You May Find That Black Hat A Hero For What He Did To Free Your Race
But Even You Goblins Treat Him As An Outcast
You Even Still Call Him Paleskin Which Is A Term You Used To Reserve For Humans
One Of The Yellow Skins Interrupted
That Is Not The Case Human
We Never Called Geist Paleskin
That Was A Term He Used On Himself
I Smugly Said
Yet Since He Has Used That Term For Himself
You No Longer Call Humans Paleskins
One Of The Other Yellows Nodded And Said
Yes That Is Because He Became The Only Meaning Of That Term
Geist Became The Paleskin
He Always Insisted On Being Called So
We Called Him Something Else
Especially Since Geist Isn't Even Recognizable As A Goblin
I Asked How So
He Has Scales Like A Goblin
He Has Glowing Eyes Like The Subterranean Ones
The Gray Skin Whispered To One Of The Yellows
The Yellow Boisterously Said
Among All Of Goblinkin
Geist Has No Pace
He Was Abandoned In A Human City
He Was Raised As A Black Hat
But No One Knows Where He Actually Came From
No Goblin Admits To Being His Parent
Even Among The Black Hats He Is An Outcast
And We Yellow Skins Who Wore The Black Hat Accepted Anyone
But No One Wanted To Be Identified With That Abomination
My Curiosity Was Piqued
Why Would You Call Him An Abomination
The Yellow Continued By Questioning
Do You Know Of Any Other Goblin As Big As a Human
Do You Know Of Any Other Goblin Who Share Traits With Another Tribe
The Male Noble Interrupted
Well All Have Our Own Distinctive Traits
Yellows Have Brute Strength
Grays Have Ingenuity And Glowing Eyes
Blues Have A High Resistance To The Elements And Can Track Anything
The Greens Can Gather And Use Vast Amounts Of Knowledge
Geist Outclassed All Goblins In What He Could Do
The Yellow Skin Continued
As I Was Saying
Have You Ever Heard Of A Goblin With The Freakish Strength Geist Has
It Was An Unnatural Strength Many Goblins Suspected He Was Demonspawn
Or Even A Fallen Demigod
Or Have You Seen A Goblin Not Even A Little Afraid Of Humans
Geist Would Outright Defy Humans
He Would Stick Out With His Pale White Skin　
He Was An Abomination With His Mismatched Traits
He Could See As Well As A Gray In The Dark Or A Green In The Light
He Could Also Withstand The Cold Like A Blue
And Was Stronger Than Any Yellow I Ever Saw Or Heard Of
He Was Also Smarter Than A Gray
And Prettier Than Any Green I Laid My Eyes On
There Is No Other Goblin Like That Abomination
Not Even His Companion Verde
I Asked You Mean The Human Goblin Hybrid
The Female Goblin Noble Answered
Yes The Child Of A Goblin Victim
The Poor Child Who Was Abandoned By Her Mother
Verde Was Raised By Black Hats
She Grew Up With Geist
She Had A Stigma For Being Half Human
But She Wasn't And Outcast Like Geist
Verde Was Beautiful
Close To the Height Of A Human
She Even Looked Almost Human
Except For Her Purple Eyes And Hair
And Her Light Green Skin
Often Some Yellow Skin Boys Would Tease Verde And Call He A Paleskin
This Would Enrage Geist And He Would Fight The Other Black Hat Children
When The Adults Would Call Geist An Abomination
Verde Would Scream At Them How He Wasn't An Abomination
Geaist And Verde Became Very Close
As They Grew Up In Those Street With The Black Hats
I Asked
So Then What Drove Him To Start The Goblin Revolution
The Female Noble Looked Dreamily For A Moment
It Was His Love For Verde
She Was Abducted By A Group Of Drunken Humans
She Was About To Share a Similar Fate To Her Mother's
Geist Followed The Group Of Humans
He Then Killed Them
He And Verde Returned Home Afterwards
One Of The Yellow Skins Continued
This Was When The Battle Began
Once Geist Had Returned Home With Verde
A Squad Of Guards Pursued Them
They Confronted The Black Hat Sector Of The City
Demanded That The Hand Over The Ones Responsible For Killing Humans
The Black Hats Handed Over Geist And Verde
The Guards Thought That The Black Hats Were Lying
The Guards Explained How It Was A Large Group Of Off Duty Guards
And That A Mere Two Goblins Wouldn't Have Been Enough To Defeat Them
The Guards Pressured The Black Hats To Hand Over The Rest
When The Black Hats Insisted It Was Only Geist
The Guards Took It As The Goblins Conspiring For Rebellion
So The Began An All Out Assault On The Black Hats
This Was The Catalyst That Made The Yellow Skins Enter The Human Goblin War
I Responded
So Geist Didn't Intentionally Instigate The Yellow Skin Uprising
He Was Fighting For His Love Verde
The Male Goblin Noble Replied
Yes That Was Exactly It
Geist Fought The Humans For His And Verde's Survival
He Joined Every Battle He Could In The War
Made As Much Of An Effort As He Could To Turn The Tide Of War
Which He Did Manage To Do
Geist Had Developed Cutthroat Tactics
Often Choosing To Be The Bait Of Most Of His Traps
The Humans Were So Focused On Him
They Never Noticed The Goblin Army That Laid In Wait
Even When We Were Flanked
Geist Could Be Seen Buying Time
Often Fighting On
Even When The Plan Didn't Succeed And We Scrambled For A Contingency
We Would Often Find Geist Exhausted In A Pile Of Dead Soldiers At The End Of Battle
At First When Geist Had Just Entered The War
A Many Of The Soldiers Still Called Him An Abomination
At Camp They Would Congratulate Him
Often Telling Him He Did A Nice Job For An Abomination
When Ever He Heard One Of Us Call Him That
He Would Be Quick To Defend His So Called Honor
Threatening Harm To Any Who Said Otherwise
If He Did Duel For His Honor
At The End Of The Duel Geist Would Make His Demands
He Always Insisted On Being Called The Paleskin
Since We Feared Geist More Than Any Human Overlord
We Learned To Respect His Wishes
Which Was How We Stopped Calling Geist An Abomination And Called Him The Paleskin
I Wondered
Was He Fighting For Recognition
The Male Noble Shook His Head No
He Was Only Fighting For Verde
The Rest Of Us Fought For Our Freedom
When Geist Finally Helped Us With The War
All Of Goblinkin Was Finally United
We Had Our Citadel
We Had A Treaty With You Humans And A Homeland
Geist And Verde Were Offered A Place In The New Goblin Homeland
They Refused
He Said He Wished To See How The Other Tribes Lived Before The War
He Left With Verde
Some Think He Went Underground With The Dwarves
Others Think He Went To the Mountains
Even Others Claim The Two Of Them Wander
All we Goblins Know Is That Geist Was A Hero
He Fought To Free Goblinkin
I Suspected The Goblins Weren't Telling Me Something
I Asked
So None Have You Have Seen Or Heard From Him
Isn't That Strange
The Blue Skin Smiled
Not At All
His Wish Was After All For He And Verde To Be Left Alone
We Respect Our Heroes Wishes
The Male Noble Nodded In Agreement
Geist Was A Difficult Goblin To Understand
And We Like That He Is An Enigma
We Use That As Hope
He Is A Hope That If Things Ever Get Bad For Our Race Again
He Might Once Again Appear When We Need Him Most
Even If Some Are Unsettled And Call Him An Abomination
They Only Call Him That Because They Don't Under Stand Him
I Smiled At The Mention Of This
I Thanked The Goblins And Left The Tavern
I Made My Way To My Home
Eager To Write About The Legend I Had Just Heard
I Felt The Truth About The Goblin Hero Geist Should Be Known
That He Wasn't A Terrorist Of Humanity
Only That He Was Misunderstood
With A Candle At My Desk And A Quill In My Hand
I Began To Write The Legend Of Geist The Paleskin
They Were Boisterous In Who Was Truly A Hero And Who Was A Fake
Their Conversation Became Heated As They Debated
The Subject Of Their Debate Was The Infamous Geist The Paleskin
Even As A Human I Had Heard His Name Uttered With Trepidation
Once I Had Heard The Name Of This Living Goblin Legend
I Turned To View The Group Of Goblins Debating
I Noticed There Were 2 Green Noble Goblins A Male And Female
There Were 3 Yellow Skin Male Peasants Each More Filthy Than The Next
Surprisingly There Was Also A Female Blue Skin Mountain Goblin
As Well As A Gray Skin Male Subterranean Goblin
I Watched As The 3 Yellow Skins Tried To Bully The Gray Skin
Into Agreement With Them Against The Green Skins And The Blue Skin
He Seemed Reluctant To Side With One Group Or The Other
I Approached The Group Interested In How Goblins Portrayed The Elusive Geist
All 7 Of The Goblins Looked At Me Warily As I Stood At Their Table
The Male Noble Then Asked Me What It Was That I Wanted
I Informed Him That I Had Overheard The Mention Of Geist
And That I Was Interested To See How Goblins Portrayed Him
The Yellow Skins Snickered And The Rest Fell Silent
One Of The Yellow Skins Began With A Question
He Asked If I Knew Anything About Goblin Culture
I Answered That There Were 4 Varieties Of Goblins
And That Any Goblins Who Lived In The Cities With Humans
Were Then Assigned A Class
Purple Hats Were For Leadership Roles
Red Hats Were For Engineering Or Servant Roles
And Black Hats Were The Undesirables
Only Able To Do The Lowest Of The Low Jobs
The Yellow Skin Interjected
That What I Said Wasn't Knowing About Goblins
It Was Only What The Humans Ordered Goblins To Do
That I Didn't Know The True Aptitude Of Goblinkin
I Asked Him To Educate Me Then
The Male Noble Held Up A Hand At The Yellow Skin
He Turn His Elfin Face Towards Me
He Smiled At Me Then Said
That In Order For Me To Understand The Story Of Geist
That I Needed To Understand The Culture Of Goblinkin
He Then Proceeded To Tell Me How Originally All Goblins Were Green Skinned
That Long Ago Goblins Settled In Different Areas
Some Settled On The Mountains
Where Their Scales Thickened And Softened To Hold Warmth In
Their Green Skin Faded To A Pale Blue
The Males Black Hair Began To Sprout From Their Faces
Their Gray Eyes Adjusted To The Ambient Light
Their Pointed Noses Became A Little Broader
The Mountain Goblins Kept Up A Traditional Goblin Way Of Life
Avoid Danger And Help Anyone Who Wasn't A Threat
It Was Rare To Find A Mountain Goblin In A City
They Often Would Shy Away From Humans
Out Of Fear Of Being Enslaved
That Fear Was Justified To Them
Since They Would Often Hear Tales From Their Yellow Cousins Of Life In The Cities
There Were Then The Ones Who Went Underground
They Yearned To Learn The Ways Of Dwarvenkin
In The Lack Of Light And Harshness Below
The Subterranean Goblins Scales Hardened And Grayed
Their Eyes Darkened To Black And Began To Glow A Bright Green In The Dark
Often The Glow Of A Subterranean Goblins Eyes Gave Him Away In The Dark
Their Once Proud Black Hair Paled To A Bright White
And Their Mane Of Hair Thinned To A Patch At The To Of Their Head
These Goblins Learned The Basics Of Smithing From The Dwarves
Only To Then Drive The Craft In A Different Direction
Where Dwarvenkin Made Large Intricate Machine
Goblins Made Small Complex One
For Every 2 handed Sword A Dwarf Made
A Goblin Made A Serrated Dagger Instead
Often You Would Find Dwarves And Goblins Debating Different Ways Of Smithing
The Goblins And Dwarves Shared A Close Relationship
Gray Skinned Goblins Avoided The Surface At All Costs
Often Trading With The Dwarves Instead
They Had Heard Tales Even In The Underground
About Their Yellow Skinned Cousins Plight
I Interrupted And Asked How This History Lesson Related To Geist
The Female Noble Answered Me
She Said That If I Didn't Understand How Goblins Viewed Themselves
And Only Held The View Of A Human
That Goblins Were All Scaly Snarling Bloodthirsty Slaves
Which Wasn't The Point
For All Of Goblinkin's Differences
They Were All One Race
Not Just The Yellow Skins That Humans Thought Of
And Even Looked Down On Calling Them Hobgoblins
She Explained That This Human Term
Was The Harshest Insult One Could Give A Goblin
Since It Meant To All Goblins
That The Goblin Insulted Was Considered Less Than An Animal
I Was Surprised by This Admission
The Male Noble Continued
Now The Ignorant Term You Humans Came Up With For Our Yellow Skinned Cousins
Was Merely The Beginning Of Their Plight
Originally The Yellow Skins And We Green Skins Had A Beneficial Relationship
The Yellow Skins Kept The Villages Going ran And Defended Everything
While We Nobles Kept Communications Between All 4 Goblin Tribes
We Tried To Unify All The Tribes We Were In The Process Of Building A Citadel
It Was Going To Be The Goblin Homeland
Then You Humans Showed Up
We Weren't Finished With Our Project
The Yellows In A Panic Sealed Us Away In Our Citadel
While You Humans Took Them Away As Slaves
We Spent Years Still In Communication With The Blues And Grays
As We Learned About Your Classification Of The Yellows
How You Separated Them Into The Red Hats, The Purple Hats, And The Black Hats
You Coerced Our Yellow Skins To Turn On Each Other
You Had The Purple Hats Bully The Black Hats
You Ran The Red Hats Ragged
After A Few Generations This Lifestyle Became Ingrained
We Green Skins Couldn't Keep Our Silence Any Longer
We began To Send Emmisaries To Your Human Cities
To Beseech You Leader On Our Yellow Skinned Cousins Plights
At First You Took Us For Meddlesome Elves
Unable To Even Recognize Our Pointed Noses And Scaly Skin
Then You Tried To Enslave Us As Well
That Was When You Turned The Yellows On Us Lead By Human Generals
The Yellows Had Adapted To Your Way Of Life
And You Thought Nothing Of A Little Goblin War
Just To Survive We Needed To Call On The Aid Of Our Brethren
Pieces Of Our Dream For A Goblin Homeland Were Realized
As The Blues And Grays Helped Us Fight Our War For Freedom
We Tried To Get The Yellows To Rebel From You Humans
But You Had Broken Their Wills To Resist Over The Generations
This Was The World That Geist Was Born Into
The World That Geist Would Change
Is It So Hard To See Why Goblinkin Find Him A Hero
I Said You May Find That Black Hat A Hero For What He Did To Free Your Race
But Even You Goblins Treat Him As An Outcast
You Even Still Call Him Paleskin Which Is A Term You Used To Reserve For Humans
One Of The Yellow Skins Interrupted
That Is Not The Case Human
We Never Called Geist Paleskin
That Was A Term He Used On Himself
I Smugly Said
Yet Since He Has Used That Term For Himself
You No Longer Call Humans Paleskins
One Of The Other Yellows Nodded And Said
Yes That Is Because He Became The Only Meaning Of That Term
Geist Became The Paleskin
He Always Insisted On Being Called So
We Called Him Something Else
Especially Since Geist Isn't Even Recognizable As A Goblin
I Asked How So
He Has Scales Like A Goblin
He Has Glowing Eyes Like The Subterranean Ones
The Gray Skin Whispered To One Of The Yellows
The Yellow Boisterously Said
Among All Of Goblinkin
Geist Has No Pace
He Was Abandoned In A Human City
He Was Raised As A Black Hat
But No One Knows Where He Actually Came From
No Goblin Admits To Being His Parent
Even Among The Black Hats He Is An Outcast
And We Yellow Skins Who Wore The Black Hat Accepted Anyone
But No One Wanted To Be Identified With That Abomination
My Curiosity Was Piqued
Why Would You Call Him An Abomination
The Yellow Continued By Questioning
Do You Know Of Any Other Goblin As Big As a Human
Do You Know Of Any Other Goblin Who Share Traits With Another Tribe
The Male Noble Interrupted
Well All Have Our Own Distinctive Traits
Yellows Have Brute Strength
Grays Have Ingenuity And Glowing Eyes
Blues Have A High Resistance To The Elements And Can Track Anything
The Greens Can Gather And Use Vast Amounts Of Knowledge
Geist Outclassed All Goblins In What He Could Do
The Yellow Skin Continued
As I Was Saying
Have You Ever Heard Of A Goblin With The Freakish Strength Geist Has
It Was An Unnatural Strength Many Goblins Suspected He Was Demonspawn
Or Even A Fallen Demigod
Or Have You Seen A Goblin Not Even A Little Afraid Of Humans
Geist Would Outright Defy Humans
He Would Stick Out With His Pale White Skin　
He Was An Abomination With His Mismatched Traits
He Could See As Well As A Gray In The Dark Or A Green In The Light
He Could Also Withstand The Cold Like A Blue
And Was Stronger Than Any Yellow I Ever Saw Or Heard Of
He Was Also Smarter Than A Gray
And Prettier Than Any Green I Laid My Eyes On
There Is No Other Goblin Like That Abomination
Not Even His Companion Verde
I Asked You Mean The Human Goblin Hybrid
The Female Goblin Noble Answered
Yes The Child Of A Goblin Victim
The Poor Child Who Was Abandoned By Her Mother
Verde Was Raised By Black Hats
She Grew Up With Geist
She Had A Stigma For Being Half Human
But She Wasn't And Outcast Like Geist
Verde Was Beautiful
Close To the Height Of A Human
She Even Looked Almost Human
Except For Her Purple Eyes And Hair
And Her Light Green Skin
Often Some Yellow Skin Boys Would Tease Verde And Call He A Paleskin
This Would Enrage Geist And He Would Fight The Other Black Hat Children
When The Adults Would Call Geist An Abomination
Verde Would Scream At Them How He Wasn't An Abomination
Geaist And Verde Became Very Close
As They Grew Up In Those Street With The Black Hats
I Asked
So Then What Drove Him To Start The Goblin Revolution
The Female Noble Looked Dreamily For A Moment
It Was His Love For Verde
She Was Abducted By A Group Of Drunken Humans
She Was About To Share a Similar Fate To Her Mother's
Geist Followed The Group Of Humans
He Then Killed Them
He And Verde Returned Home Afterwards
One Of The Yellow Skins Continued
This Was When The Battle Began
Once Geist Had Returned Home With Verde
A Squad Of Guards Pursued Them
They Confronted The Black Hat Sector Of The City
Demanded That The Hand Over The Ones Responsible For Killing Humans
The Black Hats Handed Over Geist And Verde
The Guards Thought That The Black Hats Were Lying
The Guards Explained How It Was A Large Group Of Off Duty Guards
And That A Mere Two Goblins Wouldn't Have Been Enough To Defeat Them
The Guards Pressured The Black Hats To Hand Over The Rest
When The Black Hats Insisted It Was Only Geist
The Guards Took It As The Goblins Conspiring For Rebellion
So The Began An All Out Assault On The Black Hats
This Was The Catalyst That Made The Yellow Skins Enter The Human Goblin War
I Responded
So Geist Didn't Intentionally Instigate The Yellow Skin Uprising
He Was Fighting For His Love Verde
The Male Goblin Noble Replied
Yes That Was Exactly It
Geist Fought The Humans For His And Verde's Survival
He Joined Every Battle He Could In The War
Made As Much Of An Effort As He Could To Turn The Tide Of War
Which He Did Manage To Do
Geist Had Developed Cutthroat Tactics
Often Choosing To Be The Bait Of Most Of His Traps
The Humans Were So Focused On Him
They Never Noticed The Goblin Army That Laid In Wait
Even When We Were Flanked
Geist Could Be Seen Buying Time
Often Fighting On
Even When The Plan Didn't Succeed And We Scrambled For A Contingency
We Would Often Find Geist Exhausted In A Pile Of Dead Soldiers At The End Of Battle
At First When Geist Had Just Entered The War
A Many Of The Soldiers Still Called Him An Abomination
At Camp They Would Congratulate Him
Often Telling Him He Did A Nice Job For An Abomination
When Ever He Heard One Of Us Call Him That
He Would Be Quick To Defend His So Called Honor
Threatening Harm To Any Who Said Otherwise
If He Did Duel For His Honor
At The End Of The Duel Geist Would Make His Demands
He Always Insisted On Being Called The Paleskin
Since We Feared Geist More Than Any Human Overlord
We Learned To Respect His Wishes
Which Was How We Stopped Calling Geist An Abomination And Called Him The Paleskin
I Wondered
Was He Fighting For Recognition
The Male Noble Shook His Head No
He Was Only Fighting For Verde
The Rest Of Us Fought For Our Freedom
When Geist Finally Helped Us With The War
All Of Goblinkin Was Finally United
We Had Our Citadel
We Had A Treaty With You Humans And A Homeland
Geist And Verde Were Offered A Place In The New Goblin Homeland
They Refused
He Said He Wished To See How The Other Tribes Lived Before The War
He Left With Verde
Some Think He Went Underground With The Dwarves
Others Think He Went To the Mountains
Even Others Claim The Two Of Them Wander
All we Goblins Know Is That Geist Was A Hero
He Fought To Free Goblinkin
I Suspected The Goblins Weren't Telling Me Something
I Asked
So None Have You Have Seen Or Heard From Him
Isn't That Strange
The Blue Skin Smiled
Not At All
His Wish Was After All For He And Verde To Be Left Alone
We Respect Our Heroes Wishes
The Male Noble Nodded In Agreement
Geist Was A Difficult Goblin To Understand
And We Like That He Is An Enigma
We Use That As Hope
He Is A Hope That If Things Ever Get Bad For Our Race Again
He Might Once Again Appear When We Need Him Most
Even If Some Are Unsettled And Call Him An Abomination
They Only Call Him That Because They Don't Under Stand Him
I Smiled At The Mention Of This
I Thanked The Goblins And Left The Tavern
I Made My Way To My Home
Eager To Write About The Legend I Had Just Heard
I Felt The Truth About The Goblin Hero Geist Should Be Known
That He Wasn't A Terrorist Of Humanity
Only That He Was Misunderstood
With A Candle At My Desk And A Quill In My Hand
I Began To Write The Legend Of Geist The Paleskin
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