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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Zardoz" data-source="post: 2496473" data-attributes="member: 704">KhubiaktKhubiakt was an effort at creating the most evil goblin ever.  The concept behind him was pretty decent as well.Thousands of years in the past there was a goblin warlord called Bokobok, who had manage3d to lead a massive goblin army, being a tactical genius.  His predations were brought to a halt when he offended pretty much all of the gods at once by trying to lead his armies into an assualt on the outer plains, and being such a tactical genius that he nearly succeeded.  His crimes were such that the gods forbade him entry into the afterlife, to prevent him from leading armies of the dead and taking over the afterlife.In the present, another goblin was born, called Khubiakt.  Khubiakt was not a remarkable leader, but he was a sadist to a degree that went beyond any other goblin.  Unlike other goblins, he also had a great imagination.  He was different in two other ways as well.  Khubiakt was able to communicate with the souls of the dead trapped on this plane of existence (ghosts), and to inflict pain on them, or to consume and destroy them.  He was also born without a recognizible soul, which meant that the gods could not quite 'see' him, and that he had to consume ghosts to continue to live.Khubiakt used his gifts to tortue the dead who told him their secrets.  This is how he discovered the remains of Bokobok.  He made Bokobok tell him EVERYTHING there was worth knowing about accessing the lands of the dead, Including the gate he used to go there.  He realized that the gate was the same one used by any creature to depart to the realm of the dead upon their death.Khubiakt then found the gate that Bokobok used to assault heaven and hell, and bound it to the fragments of his soul.  This allowed him to see the souls of all the dead, not just the ghosts.  So he started to torture them.  This immediately made him known to the gods who were about to destroy him utterly.  They reached for his soul, ready to crush it, and found only the gate.  And then the gods knew fear.  If they died while his soul was bound to the gate, they would trap all of the dead on earth.  And if they let Khubiakt torture the souls they swore to protect in the afterlife, they would lose their power.  And if Khubiakt was dead he would be trapped in the afterlife, consuming and destroying the dead.They could not kill him, so instead they made sure he could never die, and blinded him to the lands of the dead, so that he could only harm the souls belonging to bodies that were near him.  Being denied access to souls in the afterlife, Khubiakt used Bokobok to help raise an army goblins and created the dead bodies he needed for his power.The players first encountered him ambushing caravans.  They knew there were attacks going on, where the goblins were torturing and killing the merchants, and being way to successful at it.  Some distance outside the city, they encountered a bloddy pile of bones with a bloody goat skull, a goblin territory marker.  Then they encountered Khubiakt, and killed the goblins, and tried to kill Khubiakt.  But Khubiakt would not die.  He just kept talking.  And when they stabbed him, a nearby corpse of a human would scream.  Then Khubiakt started to raise the dead around him, so they stuffed his mouth with sand and buried him and ran.They encountered him again later, this time he was amidst the remains of a farm house, with the family tied to posts and kneeling.  Khubiakt was in the process of gouging out the eyes of the family's father and eating them.  The players were low level, and outnumbered, but charged.  Khubiakt ordered one of his goblins to set the piles of oil soaked wood at the foot of the posts ignited.  They saved one of the children.The campaign had to end for reasons beyond my control, but the story arc would have involved the players trying to figure out how to unbound Khubiakt's soul from the gate, so that the gods could destroy him.END COMMUNICATION</blockquote>

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