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« on: May 12, 2014, 12:06:25 am »
I was scrolling through the history dump of a new world I genned and noticed one goblin civ had a particularly long list of law-givers. In fact, from 137 to 648 the Ticks of Idleness had a new lawgiver every single year. Determined to find out the reason for this, I went to the legends screen.
Starting in 137 they are at war with two elf civs, The Tressed Intricacy and the Young Trees. For this entire period, each of the armies were led by a single elf. Enure Valefilled and Nisa Focusskunk, respectively. In that year and every year thereafter the elf campaigns would start in the summer and last until winter, attacking and sacking the same 5 goblin fortresses. In 480 the Young Trees stopped attacking for some reason and it was only the one civ, but it was still enough to defeat the goblin capitol Mostdungeons and kill the newly-appointed law-giver each year. Some point in the middle of the attacks one of the 5 forts is destroyed, but the others remain.
In 649, the goblin Amxu Clawhell was appointed law-giver. Here was a goblin who had refined killing elves to an art. Over the 216 years of his life before his ascension he killed 2,000 elves, 500 grizzly bears, and dozens of leopards, jaguars, and other elf nasties. The customary invasion came in the first year of his reign and he personally killed 36 attackers (including two titled elves) in the battle of Mostdungeons. During this battle, one of the attackers slashed out his left cheek and he was known as Amxu Clawhell the Snarling Skull from that day onward. This year, the elves did not take the fortress. There was a truce called.
I would love to say that Amxu continued ruling the fortress unchallenged or even launched a counterattack on the elves, but that didn't happen. There was 11 years of peace when Enure Valefilled began her campaigns again. In the first battle in Mostdungeons of the renewed war, 649, Amxu was killed and eaten by an elf named Bilao Foldedleaf the Mahogany Dye of Glittering. After one year of fighting there was no more war until the present year, 1050.
What I want to know is why does this civ still exist? If it's weak enough to get conquered every year for 500+ years, why did it not get destroyed? One of their fortresses did, why not the others?
I guess the elves just didn't want to give up their tradition.
PS- Enure Valefilled's oldest son was abducted and transformed by a bleak horror in 38. His unholy descendants still live.
