The Life of a Gien

Many years ago when the cotely mound city flourished. there, comprized of little else but halflings and gnomes they lived in peace. among them children played in the knolls and dells of green grass and great company. catch, tag, and story time was their life. one such little youngin stood out from the crowd. his name was Gien. parents and neighboors loved and cherrished this cleaver and fun loving child. he strode proudly and as all the kids liked him and he reveled in their approval. as the months grew into years his intrests went from place to place often dwelling on the rogues of legend, among them was protean. a mild mannered and gracefully quick rogue often visited his lands and complimented on his skills at tagging and hiding from his parents when he got in trouble.

the years passed and protean visited less and less. Gien troubled by this soon turned to study the arts of a rogue. dedicating his life to bring back the skills of thievery long since missed in proteans dissapearances. his parents urged him to become a fighter and help protect their home when the ogres, wich hated halflings with a desire to rid the world of them. Soon gien chose to take part in the hunting activities trying out his hiding and thieflike skills on the goblins and kobolds who often marched on the cotely mounds society. the hunting parties were amazed at his skills of aiming his blows to such accuracy that he could kill them in one hit. he became a leader of hunting parties teaching the halflings how to ward off invasion through the art of surprize.

soon the mayor started showing approval in his new ways and apointed him not only leader of hunts but to take his place when he died. it was a great honor to him as he lead hunts and prepared for his soon to come mayor duties, little did he know that his plans would come true all too soon.

one fatefull night as the city slept the ogres stormed the city and set to blaze everything that would burn and some things that wouldnt. the town was in parrel and no one was prepared for the vicous invasion of their beloved homestead. halflings died and ogres burned in their own treachery. they tried to fight back but the ogres just kept comming and comming they laid waste to the city as halflings and gnomes alike tried to flee. the battle waged from an invasion to a massacare. everything was burnt and the city was in ruins. many halflings that did survive dissapeared in the woods and were never seen by the new mayor of the cotely mounds. Gien fled the city as well. killing ogres as hatred arose from the ashes of his beloved friends and his beloved city. he fled the cotely mounds where the goblins battled the ogres in a violent struggle to overthrow the halflings and gnomes that ruled them. everything was destroyed and everything was dead. or so it seemed.

for in all the confusion the halfling mayor, Gien, ran to safety. never looking back in fear of what he might see. he wandered through the passes and vales and woods in search for safety. lashing out at ever ogre he saw blaming them for the destruction. soon he arrived in moorgate. a place filled with great fighters and wizards and temples. it overflowed with safety, there he swore that he would live as a follower or protean and rebuild the halfling kingdom that once flourished so many years ago. apointing himself the king of halflings he soon learned he acceled in the ways of the rogues. he joined the rogues guild and to this day still continues his strive to rebuild his long lost halfling kingdom.

Master Gien, The Grand Halfling

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