Zusgut
The self-proclaimed Goblin King of Absalom and the most unusual aide-de-camp of Lastwall’s exiled leader, Zusgut has swiftly become Absalom’s most unusual celebrity. Though his ego is placated by such notoriety, the burden of leadership weighs heavily upon his mind. Now in his rotting, dilapidated playhouse near the center of the Puddles, Zusgut finally finds a chance to advance his own gambits and improve his station in the world. He dresses himself as any would-be king should dress—in lavish regalia that still allows him the freedom to inflict vengeance upon those who would abuse him.
From his rickety wooden towers, Zusgut proselytizes to young goblins and wayward youths, spreading tales of pragmatic enrichment against oppressive and overwhelming enemies. He stokes the flames of audacious ambition so often found in the young, goblin or otherwise, encouraging membership in both his court and the ever-swelling ranks of the Soddenhouse Shankers, his knife-wielding Puddles militia and gang.
He has commissioned a play or two from traveling authors, the subject of which seems to re-frame the events during which he traveled with the paladin Ulthun II to focus on the goblin as the hero—though ignored in most popular circles, dilettantes with an ear for scandal usually appreciate the lurid productions, despite the underprivileged youths who take up the roles upon the stage usually butchering any substance by way of rambling soliloquies and mispronunciations.
More serious veterans of Absalom’s political games have sometimes probed Zusgut for information that could be used against Ulthun, yet with these visitors the Goblin King has proven maliciously canny and notoriously close-lipped.
From his rickety wooden towers, Zusgut proselytizes to young goblins and wayward youths, spreading tales of pragmatic enrichment against oppressive and overwhelming enemies. He stokes the flames of audacious ambition so often found in the young, goblin or otherwise, encouraging membership in both his court and the ever-swelling ranks of the Soddenhouse Shankers, his knife-wielding Puddles militia and gang.
He has commissioned a play or two from traveling authors, the subject of which seems to re-frame the events during which he traveled with the paladin Ulthun II to focus on the goblin as the hero—though ignored in most popular circles, dilettantes with an ear for scandal usually appreciate the lurid productions, despite the underprivileged youths who take up the roles upon the stage usually butchering any substance by way of rambling soliloquies and mispronunciations.
More serious veterans of Absalom’s political games have sometimes probed Zusgut for information that could be used against Ulthun, yet with these visitors the Goblin King has proven maliciously canny and notoriously close-lipped.
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