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Halfblood Chronicles V: The Forgotten Elvish Cousin
Jerry_Man
For nigh on thirty years during the reign of High Prince Ralian, Orc diplomat Kragbar'Krump lived in Upper Laurelin and took to him an Elven wife. The practice of Elves laying with Orcs had never before been known and hopefully never would be again. So the child was named Govlen, meaning 'unlikely' and was raised in Laurelin. ::The Boy was rich in vigor and lackluster in hair. His clumsy scaley body would break windows, knock over market stalls and mistakenly set fire to treetop houses. When it came time for his passage to become a man the Elven Council ruled that Govlen be removed from Malinor upon his return, lest the ancient forest be brought to its knees. ::Govlen lived longer than any Orc and took to him many wives of Kal'Urguan. His sprightly fertility bore 18 children, the first of whom was Kemal, who never took to him a child. His remaining sons bore many children and by the third generation the descendants of Govlen were numbered at four hundred two score and three. They dispersed themselves across Kal'Urguan becoming stall vendors and politicians, never fearful to leech extra minas from dim-witted Orcs. The Orc brutality for language referred to the Govlen family as 'Goblins', a name which has stuck with them since. As the bloodline continued Govlen's blessing of long life and fertility faded until the Goblins became almost synonymous to their Orcish cousins, save their intellectual and physical differences.