The Mongrel's Tale

"Not since the Moon fell and the Land cracked have I felt the world tremble such as now, and I sought an answer to what worried our Earth-Mother so. Amidst the quaking of rock and breaking of stone I heard the World cry, and I implored it to tell me what terrible calamity would assault the surface world. A single word was all I heard in reply...   Drokor."   "Amidst the desolation of the Dominion War's end, after both dragon and giant had retreated in defeat and the world had finally stilled, the few mortal races that walked the land had been destroyed. Those that remained were the hardiest, or simply the luckiest, of peoples and still barely clung to life after the world's sundering. As the dust settled, life began to return to Enturon, and for a time the future looked promising.   From the slow healing of the world, a single creature was born, though it knew not from where. The creature saw that the world was vast, and growing more populated by beast and ken, yet never did they find another like them. Loneliness ate at them, but rather than let themselves succumb to despair, the being honed their grief into a weapon and set about on their personal crusade. If the world would not give them a home, a family, a people, then they would take it by force.   Yet as he asserted his claim and raised a fist against an unjust world, the world fought back against him. Great beasts began to hunt him down, stalking him day and night, but he eluded and trapped them, filling his belly with their meat and growing strong. Terrible storms were sent to beset him, but he tore open the land and built a shelter to weather any wind. Once, even a great tree sacrificed itself and split at the base, seeking to topple onto the being and render him a memory. Yet the creature avoided the collapse, and fashioned the massive bough of the tree into a fearsome weapon. As his strength grew and the land continued to fail in stopping him, he emerged from the mountains of his birth and gained sight of the open world stretched out before him, ready to fall at his hand. And as he looked upon the world, wild and untamed and ripe for conquest... He smiled."  

Work of the Stonescribes

  While dwarven legend was originally passed down through storytellers by word of mouth only, as time and technology advanced the desire for written records grew, and the order of Stonescribes was created. Their first task was to record and research dwarven history, and much of what was available spoke to Drokor the Mongrel  and his vast Legion that conquered much of the known world, and nearly broke the dwarves as well. The Mongrel's Tale is a chronicle of stories, records, and legends surrounding the greatest threat Arkthen ever faced, translated into the Common tongue and distributed across the libraries of the world. This tale has an almost unique quality about it, in that the Stonescribes reached out to other cultures and requested their additions as well, from both those who fought against the Mongrel such as the elves and humans, and of those subjugated by the conquerer like the draconians and goliaths. In fact, there are even records from the goblinoids themselves of their great leader, either donated eagerly by those wanting to keep his legacy alive or recovered documents found from defeated foes. The greatest addition to the Tale is in fact the journal of Drokor himself, of which only scraps and references have been found, but they alone offer a personal insight into the truth of the man who shook the world to its core.