A thief and a rogue, Eron the Relentless is the ruler of all the land from Koskun Falls to the edge of the Great Wood. Originally a street urchin and petty thief in Aysen, Eron followed a strange path that led him to immortality and eventually to the rough-hewn throne of the Goblin King. Craving something more exciting than second-story work, Eron visited the Floating Isle, home of the Wizards' School and the Wizard Savant Bernatheen. The Savant promised to cast any spell in his possession on Eron if the thief would venture into Castle Sengir a retrieve a tome of dark spells from Grandmother Sengir's library. Eron agreed. The raid went well. After hours of searching, he discovered the main library and found Grandmother Sengir fast asleep under one of the ink-stained tables. Not knowing a spell book from a recipe book, Eron took a chance and escaped with the journal. When Eron presented the spell book to Bernatheen, he took another gamble and demanded that the last spell in the tome be used as his reward. After Bernatheen cast the spell, Eron found he was immortal and immune to aging. He also found, however, that although he would regenerate whatever damage was done to him, scars and minor aches would never entirely heal. Eron's subsequent reign of terror in Aysen is legendary. Armed with only a small knife, he would face whole packs of angry gaurds. On one occasion, he even cut himself into sections to fit through jail house bars. After a few months of fame and fortune, though, Eron grew bored with crime. He traveled the Homelands for a year, looking for adventure, and eventually wandering into Koskun Keep. He forced his way into the palace hall and declared himself King of the Goblins. Of course, the Goblins killed him and threw him into the corner for the wolves to eat. When Eron got up a few minutes later, the Goblins killed him again, thinking him to be some terrible undead sent by Baron Sengir. When he got up again, Eron proclaimed that it was his destiny to rule over the Goblin families. The Goblins decided to accept him and took the opportunity to rid themselves of the current ruling family. Although Eron was eventually praised as a hero and worshiped as a demigod by the Goblins, he has been assasinated some twenty-seven times by his loyal subjects. Each time he is murdered, though, he seemed to just become more determined and his ideas about justice seem to degenerate even further. Eron recently formed a treaty with Aysen in which he agreed to keep his subjects from invading in exchange for continued trade in food and goods. Eron knows that if he does not keep firm control, his subjects may just throw him down a mine shaft and declare war against everyone. While Eron can be a completely maniacal ruler, his primary concern is with the future of all the peoples of the Homelands and his own place of power among them as the Goblin King.
Story from Deulist #8
