All across the world heroes and villains a like coming from great city's to poor villages went out into the world. Thus taking the first step on their grand journey that would be made into an epic tale at the end. Though whether these tales were of them helping those in need or tormenting the innocent would be dependent on who was walking the journey and what they turned into by its end. Though both tales of heros and villains had mentions of those monsters they killed along their path.
That was truly a main part of all tales told in the legendary age the whole slaughter of monsters. Though at the beginning the focus of the tale had to use their intelligence, skill and cunning to defeat the monster but by the end the greatest monster could be crushed by these champions of legends with but a wave of the hand. There is no speaking of the life's the monsters made for themselves for the killers see only savage beast and not anything deeper that lays beneath. They do not see the heroes and villains that lay among monsters as that would mean seeing themselves in the monsters which they refused to do.
One such hero among monster kind was the ogre bad tooth. He was hero tormented by a bad tooth that kept him constant agony but when the ogre hunters came to his home to slaughter his people to kill them all for glory and valuble ogre skin. Bad tooth stood his ground holding off many a hunter before he fell allowing his people to escape but to those who played him he was no hero no worthy advisory just a stronger beast to gloat about killing at the bar later.
A villain born from them that was whispered about even among his own monster kind was Greca the Goake a hybrid goat snake monster. He used his powers over poison in combination with his horns to leave a trail of broken and dying people all crying out in agony as they waited for the sweet releaseof death. Eventually he was slayne by hero who thought him merely an intresting hunt instead of the sadistic villain he truly was.
Those going on these grand monster slaying adventures did not care about the kingdoms they destroyed either for they did not see them as kingdoms. They merely saw them as ravenous savage hordes or mere beast dens for it is so much easier to slaughter a people when they are not people but vermin to put down for the good of all. They didn't even show respect for the kings and queens of these fallen nations and on more than one occasion didn't even bother identifying who the royals were leading these small monster nations so many were left to just rot in the ruins of their once budding kingdoms.
One such tale of a monster's kingdom being cruely destroyed without the slightest thought was the tale of the spider queen Spikera her kingdom of webs had stood for generations spawning legion after legion of ferocious spider warriors. Then in but a moment Spikera kingdom of webs were undone burned to crisp to satisfy the needs of a pyro mage to burn all that was in their path. Their was no great threat that Spikera Kingdom posed to the wider world but it was in the way of one who loved to watched things burn so her kingdom did.
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Another tale of a small monster kingdom horrific slaughter by those who thought the task nothing more than a mere chore was the fall of the kingdom of Akreg. They were a hardy people born living in massive dirt mounds and master's of acid. Their kingdom was destroyed by a dwarven hero so that they could mine the ore that the Akreg people lived near and you do not negotiate with monsters you kill them. So a kingdom that had lived for four kings was snuffed out in a single battle by a hero who did not consider the story of their valiant defense of their existence worthy of putting into his grand legend.
The gods of the monster pantheon were helpless as they watched their people turn from them in this harsh world of survival. For how can they believe they have gods in a world where all the civilized races hunt them for fun making it clear to them they exist to die for the legends of the peoples champions. These gods exist perpetually questioning whether they will survive this era of legends and if they deseryti as they watch the monsters they are supposed to govern be slaughtered and brought to the age of extinction once again.
You will find many such sad tales as hundreds of heroes and villains among the monsters rise and die in a day. Thousands of monster kingdom raising then falling just as quickly as their hopes for a better future were crushed without remorse by those who merely wished to use the slaughter of their small kingdoms as a way to warm up for the true great battle ahead. A thousand legends of monster were born and snuffed out creating a hundred era of legends among monster king all of them used to fuel the tales of the civilized races as they rise to great heights once again.
Phabium watched all of this as the new age of legends began once again as fledgling champions slaughtered those under his care as the lesser gods of his pantheon held out hope that maybe this time wouldn't be as bad as the last one. Phabium had more than hope though he had plan as he had many times before in eras of legends that had come and gone. Though this time he had just enough to get aid from outside the world of Zostrora and the heavens above them.
Usualy he would have been limited to training to controlling events on Zostrora to try and better the survival chances of the monsters races on Zostrora. Now while he Phabium has never been able to prevent the slaughter of monsters he was not that strong enough to turn that specific tide he was able to prevent the wholesale extinction of several races over the years.
Though this time he had saved up enough power to be able to call forth a champion. Though unlike his colleagues he would not be able to create some grand hero but he could he bring someone who had drifted away from the river of Styx and was lost in the void between world hopefully with this souls help he could take a more direct course on Zostrora and finally for the first time in thousands of years there would be a few legends of monsters that survived the age of legends.