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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 1177602" data-attributes="member: 704">The Conduit of Lost SoulsIn ages lost, the mortal known now only The Corruptor fell ill, and lay near death for several weeks.  During this time, he slipped into and outof a state of death.  His will was such that he was able to defy the gods that would take him from this mortal coil.  And as he stay near his half state of death, he found he could see the souls of the living as they await the call of the gods to their eternal reward.The Corruptor found he could interact with those souls.  More importantly, he found he could cause them anguish not possible in the realm of the flesh.  Even better, he could ruin those souls, and make them do as he pleased, or he could destroy them.  When he realized he could do this, he first destroyed his own soul, so that the gods could no longer compell him against his will.  With his soul destroyed, the gods twisted his mortal body into a mockery of its self, creating a creature with a mind twisted by its own evil, a body that was a punishment of the gods, and no soul to speak of.  This was the first goblin.When the corruptor found that the gods could still cause him harm, he went about his revenge.  The corruptor set them about creating a temple, and he used the souls of others to create a matching temple in the Astral plane.  The temple was constructed from the bodies and souls of the followers of the most devout gods.  The corruptor released those souls to their gods, but bound them to the temple.  If the temple were destroyed, so too would the souls of the gods followers be destroyed.Within this temple, the Corruptor created his first mortal followers, and set them about destroying the works of the gods who had angered him.  While his goblins had souls, they were souls that were twisted by the Corruptor to be worthless to all but himself.  And each time a goblin killed, its soul was lost to its god unless the corruptor wished to release it.  And each soul was bound to the astral reflection of the Corruptors temple.Soon, the corruptor began constructing a conduit of these lost souls to allow him to reach the home of the gods, the one place that they would be vulnerable to him.  His followers multiplied, and became a plauge upon the world, united by the Corruptor.  The gods knew their danger, and united their mortal followers, the Elves, Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, Humans, and Orcs to strike back at the goblin hordes.As the Corruptor was about to reach the threshold of the gods home through his conduit of Lost Souls, the armies of mortals defeated and scattered his goblins (after all, other then being horrificially evil, the goblins werent that strong or dangerous), and seized the Corruptors mortal body, and tried to destroy him.   It was the Orcs, the most favored mortals of the gods, and their best warriors who succeeded in bringing the Corruptor low. The Mortals could harm The Corruptors mortal body but the Corruptor had no Soul, and could not die.  This was because the Corruptors very body WAS the Conduit of Lost Souls.  Destroying him would destroy all the souls of all the people ever slain by a goblin.  And the gods argued among them selves on who would keep the Corruptors body.  It was decided to entrust the Conduit to the mortal races who destroyed the Corruptor.It was the Orcs, the favored race of the gods and their most powerful warriors that finally slew the Corruptor, and it was the Orcs who paid the price for their success.  They tried to consume the essence of their vanquished foe as they always did, to gain the strength of the vanquished.  They became as twisted and brutal, as the goblins.  The gods could not undo this, and the Orcs have hated the gods and the mortals who failed them ever since.The other races saw the orcs fall from grace, and knew that to keep the remains among themselves would some day ruin them.  So they constructed several tombs.Eventually, the goblins found new masters and gods to serve, but they still remember their creator, known to them as Bokobok [The great corruptor].Next:  The 7 Tombs of Bokobok /*Because I am not a nice guy*/END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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