Hobgoblin

## Empire of War

*"Their army comes in during the dead of night. Torches, siege equipment, mounts, and swords at the ready. They ruin your town, destroy your land, and enslave your people. It's only after you've murdered every last knife-eared bastard. Once they're dead, their bodies at your feet... that's when you hear the war horn sound, for these were only the scouts."*

-King Berrenis II, King of Red-Lance

Hobgoblins are ruthless, Goblinoids who want nothing more than endless warfare and complete control of any kingdoms or land they can take. Due to the devilish power that was used to create them, Hobgoblins are born with the intent to murder and destroy, this makes them near impossible to turn to the side of good. The Hobgoblins who due turn to the side of good are generally extremely intelligent and powerful. A legend speaks that if you consume the flesh of a Hobgoblin, you too will become evil.

During the war between Goblins and Dwarves over the destruction of the Goblin capital city, A Goblin General, Maglubiyet, discovered an artifact left over from the Incursion while patrolling near the border of Bheric and Savanhelsh. Using the power of the artifact, **Maglubiyet** transformed himself into a near demigod of war, turning his skin black, his height to 6 feet, and his eyes aflame. He then transformed his army into perfect soldiers: The first Hobgoblins. His favored lieutenants, **Nomog-Geaya**,**Khurgorbaeyag**, and **Bargrivyek,**were granted far more infernal powers.

The new Hobgoblins took control of the Goblin kingdom and easily turned the tide of the war against the Dwarves, killing their armies with relative ease with their newfound power.

It wasn't until a family of Gnomes and Dwarves created the first Warforged to fight the encroaching menace of the new Empire of War.

Following a well placed trap and many lost lives, the Dwarves collapsed a cavern onto the brunt of the Hobgoblin army. Maglubiyet and his lieutenants were heavily wounded, but survived. With the remaining bit of mortal power Maglubiyet had, he escaped into the plane of Acheron to live on as a god to the Hobgoblin and Goblin people.

Following the loss of their leader, the death of the majority of their army, and the destruction of key farms and resource positions, the Hobgoblins retreated and declared a White Peace with the Dwarven Kingdom of Savanhelsh.

The Empire quickly built and expanded it's borders with relative ease. Monsters were slain or domesticated into war and farming use, Sapients were enslaved and forced into servitude under the Empire.

During the Draconic War, An Ancient blue dragon used the war, and the chaos from it, as an excuse to take over Bheric for herself. Sheroth, A blue dragon capable of incredible magic and intelligence, easily took the land from the Hobgoblins, who quickly realized how powerful their empire could be if they had the insurance of a blue dragon.

With Sheroth at the position of Queen, she led the kingdom of Bheric to it's Golden age.

In 291 P.A., Albera declared war onto Bheric for their acts of slavery and plague onto the world.

This war, dubbed the 160 Year War (on account of it being exactly 160 years,) brought destruction and ruin to the tribal lands of Pretoria, resulting in the enslavement and movement of many of the bestial races of the land. Dragonborn fought on either side, Tabaxi were used as stealth agents and assassins, and Lizardfolk as savage killers and meat shields for the main army.

The end of the war in a White Peace due to the rising tensions from the Dwarven Royal family of Savanhelsh, the mage council of Mystosit, and the Giant King of Harhorus. Sheroth, seeing how this would turn out, declared a White peace to the tired and hurting Albera, who accepted it immediately.

For many generations after, Bheric carefully expanded its borders and kidnapped commoners in the night.

However, one fateful kidnapping went awry when a group of Bugbear accidentally mistook a member of the royal family of Red-Lance as a commoner, taking her directly to the slave camps within Bheric. Red-Lance, already suspecting the kidnapping to be related to Bheric from past experience, engaged in an undeclared war, leading a war effort along the border of their kingdom.

Bheric responded with a counter-attack of their own, expressing a formal declaration of war.

To this day, the war continues with either side holding their borders along enormous walls, occasionally leading secret missions to destroy key outposts and secure important data, but never leading an army directly across the No-Mans-Land.