Ygs Goldclamp
Ygs Goldclamp
Eyeballs? Well... I do have the ones from this Hare if that is good enough.
- Butcher in Alennin
Born into the caste leading the goblin clan, Ygs received many privileges in her younger years, including other goblins as servants and better clothing.
Yes has never learned the identity of her parents, and she was raised by her "uncle" (bloodline relations unclear). The relationship they had was that of a father and daughter, but with even less intimacy than normal for a goblin. While her uncle was leading the clan, Ygs was assigned to the clan's shaman as soon as Ygs was capable of learning the rituals and primitive magic needed to take over from the ageing shaman. Even though Ygs never showed talent for what the shaman tried to teach her about the great old one, the goblin god, she stuck with the profession.
After five years Ygs had made a name for herself. Not for being a good shaman, but for being oppressive and cruel to those beneath her, making them pay in labour for her rather luxurious lifestyle. This made her hated and feared in the lower ranked castes of the clan. In her own caste she had managed to establish herself positively, even making a few respected allies. In the end it started to look like her uncle would make her the new leader, once he grew to old.
Around her 10th birthday things took a turn for the worse. She fell ill after her first pregnancy ended in a miscarriage. Mere days after she had successfully battled childbed fever, the hunter caste rebelled in order to take the leadership away from Ygs's caste. Ygs's uncle was killed in the fighting and she was forced to flee through the cave system when she realised that her harsh treatment of the lower castes had made her a prime target for picking an eye.
As the goblins searched for her, she realised that she was in great danger and so she hastily set up a ritual to contact the great old one. As she muttered her prayer she never noticed that one of the sigils was wrong, a mistake made in haste.
As Ygs spoke the last words her remaining breath was sucked out of her lungs and the sigils started to glow faintly blue. After a second of shock Ygs managed to notice that the dust and dirt on the ground started floating, creating the vague outline of a humanoid figure in front of her, barely visible in the dim light of the sigils. Another second passed and a presence intruded upon her mind, filling it with a voice as deep as the caves that surrounded them:
You are in the deep caves, young one. I refuse to take you out, but submit to my will and follow my word and I shall grant you the power to crawl out yourself.
Barely able to understand what was happening to her, Ygs couldn't bring herself to respond verbally. A few moments passed before Ygs broke out in a grin as wide as she could make it and knelt in front of the figure that she believed to be the great old one. The figure stretched out a shadowy limb and touched Ygs on the head.
As cold ashes over her, Ygs felt the presence retreat, while leaving shadows behind. Shadows that connected her to the power of the entity she had just made a deal with.
Blinking a few times and looking around, Ygs saw the dust settle on the now dark sigils on the ground, as well as a hunting party rounding the corner. The three hunters recognised her and stormed forward, shouting in anger. Still kneeling Ygs drew on the shadows in her mind and cast magic towards them. Seconds later one hunting goblin ran through the caves, shouting in fear and leaving behind two goblin corpses and a grinning Ygs.
After this the way to the cave entrance was surprisingly quiet, as no-one dared to hunt her. Outside the blinding sun and the unusual people scared her at first, but as she roamed and explored she got used to it. One thing that took longer to get used to was the visions that the shadows in her mind created at night. These tended to overwhelm her and reduced her sleep.
In one of these visions she found herself in a cold pine forest with only moonlight filtering through the branches and in front of her a figure made from mist and shadows. It spoke with the same deep voice from the caves:
Your ignorant belief that I am the great old one is an insult. I am Mab, queen of the side court and you will address me as such.
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A good, solid backstory to a character, though it does leave me with a number of questions. First sentence of the second paragraph, you spelled her name 'Yes'. On the subject of her name - How exactly do you pronounce Ygs? What is the side court referenced by the being called Mab? Is it a pantheon of deities? Or did Ygs somehow contact a powerful sorceress instead of her god? What happened with the goblin castes after Ygs left? Who's running the show in the caves now?