Leiden's life had been a bizarre one.
For the first ten years of his life, he was like most ordinary Giant Goblins. He lived in the boundless Wilderness, leading a troop of Bear Goblins and Goblins, his existence barely better than that of a beast.
Though they claimed to be masters of tactics and strategy, it was merely a case of being the tallest among dwarves. Compared to their ignorant kin—the Goblins—they could indeed be called exceptionally intelligent.
But compared to humans or Elves, their so-called exceptional Wisdom was as laughable as a toddler who had just learned to speak claiming to be fluent in the slang of the Seven Kingdoms.
His ten years of life consisted of leading a few dozen Bear Goblins through a tedious, cyclical existence: find food, eat his fill, sleep, and then go back to plundering or foraging.
Everything changed with a disaster.
