Maglubiyet, The Mighty One

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**Maglubiyet**, called **Fiery-Eyes**, **The Mighty One**, and **The Conquering God**, is the Hobgoblin God of Strength, Domination, and Rulership. He rules the remaining Goblin Pantheon, having killed or subjugated nearly all other goblinoid gods during the Goblin Wars to make the title of Hobgoblin King supreme. Maglubiyet was originally a Lieutenant of Tuern, but after Bane usurped their master he quickly exploited the last of the Goblin Wars to subjugate Maglubiyet. Reduced to Bane's exarch, Maglubiyet served the War God until the time of The Psion's Night, where he exploited the aid of Amoth to betray and kill Bane. Maglubiyet, however, was himself was soon betrayed by his own pantheon and imprisoned by Lucresia Imscari, The Black General.

## History

### The Goblin Wars and Rise of Bane

Maglubiyet had always been mightiest of the Goblin Gods, serving as one of Tuern's seven lieutenants along the likes of Bane, Gruumsh, and Kord. He instigated one of the most ancient conflicts in Chernoggar, the Goblin Wars, in an attempt to exterminate all other Goblin Gods and proclaim himself the ruler of all goblinoids. Maglubiyet was largely successful, and killed nearly the entire pantheon. He was stopped, however, by the Bugbear God Hruugek. Hruggek's ferocity matched Maglubiyet's own and his mastery of ambushes allowed the bugbears to exact a terrible toll on Maglubiyet's hobgoblin armies.

Maglubiyet was in actuality losing the war, were it not for the secret intervention of Bane. Bane was planning his usurpation of Tuern, and recognized a need for strong allies to help establish control over Chernoggar in the chaos that would follow. Bane, hidden, would appear to the hobgoblins in time of need. He would teach them strategies and provide boons to turn the tide of battle, becoming renowned and favored in the eyes of the hobgoblins even more than their own terrible god.

As a result of Bane's actions, the tide of war turned against Hruugek. But it was upon the eve of the final battle, when Maglubiyet would finally crush Hruugek, that Bane began his usurpation. After slaying Tuern, Bane took the throne of Chernoggar and decreed that Maglubiyet (as his subject) end the war. Maglubiyet, naturally, was infuriated and sought to challenge Bane. But he quickly realized that his followers, the hobgoblins, had already chosen a side. They would not follow him against Bane, quite the opposite, likely choose Bane's side against him. Realizing, too, that this would likely lose him the war against Hruugek, Maglubiyet consented, and thus was bound into Bane's service as his subject.

Hruugek too, being saved by Bane's last minute intervention, bowed the the War God's will. This created an uneasy alliance between Maglubiyet and Hruugek, still mortal enemies but now in service to the same god. Bane's intercession also saved a number of more minor goblin gods who might otherwise been massacred. It was Bane's secret whisperings of advice that convinced Maglubiyet to spare Khurgorbaeyag to serve as overseer of the enslaved legions. And it was his hand that preserved Bargrivyek so that he might act as intermediary between Hruugek and Maglubiyet. Nomog-Geaya, however, was spared by Maglubiyet's own will, seeing the warrior god as a perfect servant whose ideals aligned with his own.

With the armies of Maglubiyet and Hruugek to aid him, Bane was able to handily defeat the other lieutenants who opposed his usurpation and secure the throne of Chernoggar.

### Building of Clangor and the Great Chainbreaking

Although Hruugek's bugbears remained free, most other goblinoids had been conquered by Maglubiyet. The hobgoblins, his people, were established as the upper caste and enslaved many of the lesser goblinoids, particularly normal goblins, to do their bidding. Khurgorbaeyag marshalled the slaves with an iron will and whip, and used their labor to construct Clangor for Maglubiyet. The city would serve as a monument to his might and became one of the greatest centers for slavery and pit-fighting within the dominions.

Although Maglubiyet held a firm grip on goblin-kind, it was not impervious. Eventually a large rebellion of goblin slaves overtook Clangor, led by The Chainbreaker Great Gark. Despite their weakness in comparison to the hobgoblins, these goblins used incredible ingenuity and resourcefulness to escape their enslavers. The coming of the Dawn War to Chernoggar and the efforts of bugbears (ever keen to spite the hobgoblins when possible) spurned Maglubiyet's many attempts to recapture the goblins.

### The Psion's Night

Maglubiyet was keen to take advantage of The Psion's Night when the opportunity arose. Allying himself with Gruumsh, he utilized the Sovereignty of Amoth's aid to betray Bane and strike the god down. Maglubiyet believed that together with himself and Gruumsh, Chernoggar could be united and its ascendant might turned against Amoth. Perhaps more foolheartedly, he believed that after Amoth was destroyed they could utilize the chaos the mad god wrought to conquer the remaining dominions.

The extent of Maglubiyet's plans may never be known, for they quickly fell apart. Gruumsh had no interest into uniting Chernoggar, and simply turned his warband to help the Sovereignty invade Lae the moment Bane's forces were stamped out. With his allies now gone to fight their own separate war, Maglubiyet was left to contend with Chernoggar. He soon found his subjects scheming against him. Khurgorbaeyag and Bargriviyek had always served Maglubiyet due to the actions of Bane, and the betrayal of that master in favor of Gruumsh quickly spoiled their intent to continue aiding him. This had been Bane's intention, having Maglubiyet's most powerful servants be contingencies against him. The Black-Chosen, acting in secret, had also not been completely wiped out by Maglubiyet. They conspired with the hobgoblins who opposed Magulibyet's direction and staged a coup in Clangor.

Maglubiyet's position as the Hobgoblin King was overthrown and usurped by Khurgorbaeyag. The Mighty One was cast down into the dungeons where he was imprisoned by the very apparatus he built to hold other gods. The Black General attempted to torture Maglubiyet for information on Gruumsh and the Sovereignty's plans, to little avail. That is, until the arrival of The Afterparty. The Black General employed Blarg Deaff and Kinsley Faelynn, master torturers of their respective creeds, to draw information from Maglubiyet.

The two were successful, leveraging Maglubiyet's failings and distain for Gruumsh abandoning his plan. Now with nothing left but resentment, the Mighty One exfoliated what he knew, in the hopes that it might bring down Gruumsh and Amoth with him.