#Goblin Commander Ozvald

[thestalkerbunny]

Hey there, any chance we could perhaps see how the goblins and their princess are doing?

They're doing great.

Goblins are like cats. You rustle a bag and they want whatever is inside it. It could be Cool Ranch Doritos, it could be a handful of buttons, they want it now cause it made the tantalizing shakey shakey crinkle noise.

[thestalkerbunny]

I am so damn curious and interested about Princess Diedre and her lil Goblin

Beauty is as Beauty does.

A little bit more about Diedre's situation and her whole deal with the mask and the robes and veils.

[thestalkerbunny]

Who or what are some of the other characters in the Goblin Army of Princess Deidre?

More Goblins to gradually make their appearances in time; but meet Beetle.

He was blinded by a poison spitting snake and the result was him essentially being nearly sightless. He managed to keep his place in the horde by learning to make clay plates and bowls despite the leader at the time wanting to throw him out since he was 'useless' as a hunter, guard or almost anything else. Ozvald viciously fought to keep Beetle in the Goblin Horde. (And that is literal, the previous leadership of the horde was not a kind one and most disputes were solved with goblins being thrown across the room and little bones being broken.)

Beetle may or may not eat paint, but that's just normal artist/goblin behavior. He now has access to much paint which he chooses based on flavoring. He also dabbles still in pottery; though Princess Diedre won't let him taste the glazes. He is called Beetle as he was the last to learn to walk as a child and laid on his back with his legs in the air, 'Much like a Beetle'

[thestalkerbunny]

Has Osvald ever been hugged by the princess? Or received any other form of affection from her?

On occasion they do. Usually privately. Since Diedre doesn't remove her mask and veils in public AT ALL. But they show the appropriate amount of affection for an engaged couple. Kissing. Hugging. Eating the cucumbers off Diedre's sandwich cause she doesn't like them.

(All the goblins know what she looks like underneath the mask and see her unmasked most frequently. Everyone else gets the ominous veils and mask treatment.)

[thestalkerbunny]

Is Goblin Commander Ozvald future King Consort or "just friends?" (As I understand that friendship is a perfectly reasonable place to be.)

Just Friends. Really cool friends that eat off each others plates. and give each other flowers. and sleep in the same bed. and are engaged to be wed as soon as people warm up more to the idea of their civic leader marrying a goblin. (and because they've decided to take it slow, do more getting to know you, they say you should wait 5 or so years of living together before considering marriage. Getting married the same weekend you meet is SO 15th century.)

[thestalkerbunny]

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-Ozvald's favorite fruit was strawberries. which finding safe patches of them eat from was a rarity and a special treat back in the day. But now that he's living in the comfort with his fellow goblins under the service of Princess Diedre, he can have strawberries anytime he wants. He also likes peaches, but they're a bit messy and sticky for him to eat.

-The goblins used to sleep communally since the caves they lived in were rather cold, they sorta just.....

Cuddlin. Even now they live in a warm big castle home with central heating and their choice of spots to sleep in, it's not uncommon to see 4 or 5 of them cuddling in the midday sun for a nap.

-Ozvald doesn't ask to eat off Diedre's plate, he just sort of involuntarily leers over the table at whatever Diedre's eating like a hungry little dog begging for scraps. Diedre give him bites of dinner. Just so he has a little something something to eat. Make him think he's being helpful by taste testing her food.

-There aren't many women or children in the Goblin Clan. Mainly since the stress of the previous Bugbear leader resulted in people miscarrying and dying of stress based complications shortly after. They have a 'cleric' of sorts....up until the Bugbear crushed her skull because some medicine he was given tasted bad. This is the first time in YEARS that the goblins have been in a situation that they're comfortable enough to begin breeding successfully in.

-Ozvald is not a fan of horses. No goblin really is. Mainly because they're viewed as large clumsy creatures that are prone to kicking for no reason and bite and smell and have TERRIBLE personalities. Ozvald was bitten by a horse as a little Goblet when he and some other Goblets snuck onto a farm to steal horse feed to eat. (That's how bad things were getting. people were eating horse food.)

[thestalkerbunny]

Ozvald and Diedre are absolutely adorable. If you have any miscellaneous bits of information on them, please share.

Let's have a bit about Ozvald and his Clan

-Ozvald is from a forest Clan of Goblins that reside outside of the city that Diedre's family ruled over. They have a long illustrious history of existing and breathing. And apparently being a nuisance to farmers and being called overgrown green rabbits that keep stealing potatoes and carrots. Times were good.

-Unfortunately like many Goblin Clans, they had their independence seized by a much larger goblinoid predator (a Bugbear). It started out nice at first-the Bugbear kept them safe from natural predators (wolves, bears, really ballsy eagles.) and in exchange they provided the Bugbear with food and shelter. But unfortunately like many cases, the management became toxic. The bugbear started spending more of his time drinking and abusing the goblins than actually protecting them.

-The goblins that survived the abuse became very bedraggled and scarred. Too exhausted to hunt and gather efficiently on top of having to defend themselves resulting in the bugbear abusing them further. Once proud numbers dwindled down to concerning double digets. Too weak to afford running away and too dependent on the safety that at least the rumor of having a bug bear supplied.

-Ozvald's position as the 'commander' was more of a group elected position. More of a 'we collectively vote OZVALD to tell his surliness all the bad news that we may have for him'. His ability to withstand being tossed around like a shot putt resulted in the other goblins admiring him and he sort of became the unspokenly voted leader.

-Ozvald lost his eye due to the bugbear being too rough with him. Because of that, he usually tries to have people he doesn't trust too fully walk on the side that he has an eye on; with Diedre, he lets her walk in his blind spot as a sign of trust.

-Ozvald also protected the other permantly disabled goblins, like Beetle who was blinded, as the Bugbear didn't want to waste time and resources on 'those who can't pull their weight.' and would often kill them while they were sleeping. Ozvald spent most of the time he could be sleeping watching over the other Goblins with a few volunteers as the bug bear didn't at least have the audacity to kill them while any others were awake.

-Ozvald didn't properly know his parents, as they left near the start of the Bugbear's reign. Not out of selfishness, but with other goblins in an attempt to find a less populated area they could move to as the city and human population was getting much much bigger locally and would soon take problem with the goblins...existing in general. The group never returned and are presumed dead. Ozvald had hardly known a life of luxury growing up in an abusive leader's reign.

-Ozvald wanted his clan to grow in prosperity, he wanted them to achieve a sense of comfortableness that the city people got to enjoy-he wanted their clan to have all the things. Economy, Art, Warm Floors, Clean water. But the Bugbear's reign essentially kept them in a sort of 'stone age' status.

[thestalkerbunny]

So how was the bugbear problem dealt with? Is the bugbear still alive or did the goblins leave?

Well, per the usual, when a very loud noisey bugbear with a horde of goblins is sighted, amping up theft from garden snatching which is what they usually did-to stealing whole COWS and SHEEP and CHICKENS- most people do the only thing they know to do.

Hire out a group of adventurers to fix that problem.

In the grand scheme of things, the Goblin Clan and the Bugbear Leader were besieged by a up and coming adventuring party. While they fought no Goblins (who it happened to be wash day, they were down by the river washing the clothes, wounds that had been inflicted, hot summer day no better place to be than the river.) they did fight an over sized, well fed, alcoholic bug bear and ended up killing him and leaving him in the 'filthy cave' they found him in.

When the Goblins got back, although finding their long time abuser gashed open in their community living room with his claws ripped out to be sold at market as a boner malfunction solution was a massive emotional relief-the fact that now they were back to square one with having no sort of leadership, the tank of defense and security is gone. And the locals are pissed because the Goblins had been stealing bigger things to keep the Bugbear fed and 'happy', so more adventuring parties are going to be sent to the forest to kill off the 'pest problem' that the goblins had become.

And without a bug bear and in their weak numbers and sickly states; they could be murdered easily by teenagers with farm equipment. Even though their bugbear leader was TERRIBLE, just the casual threat of a bug bear tended to keep farmers and locals off the goblin's backs when it came to small time casual thefts.

It's kinda like having your house broken into, someone who you regarded as big and strong slaughtered in your living room and you just stand there, sweating and panicking. Because if they could do this to someone you thought was untouchable-imagine what they could do to YOU.

It was around that time, Ozvald was essentially elected into leadership as the proper Commander. And so began goblins becoming organized, weaponized and more effective as a group. They eventually laid siege to Diedre's home, but not before terrorizing local farms, people wandering through the woods and then the logging site that was gradually destroying the safety of their forest home. More or less testing their abilities and trying to build themselves up as a threat and not to be messed with.

[thestalkerbunny]

The Goblin Commander, Oz, who now serves as the Princess Diedre's devoted loyal Bodyguard. He's a bit testy with the people, which granted with the assumptions they make about his race and the stereotypes around them-you'd be constantly TESTY too.

There is gossip and speculation in the nobility's circles about how INTIMATE their relationship goes, given how close they are, how she shares food off her plate with him and addresses him rather fondly

[thestalkerbunny]

We all know Lady Diedre and her devoted fiancee, the Goblin Commander Ozvald. But here are some other faces that belong to Ozvald's clan of Goblins. For those of you new to these sad Goblin's tale, they used to be under the leadership of a Bugbear who seriously ran the clan into the literal DIRT and it was with his surprise death at the hands of adventurers that the Goblin Clan was finally liberated.