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Luke

Stockade's beloved Lemig goblin who threw himself in front of his warlord and was killed by Shi Maria's rampage.

Story so far

On the replay screen, Luke hurls himself in front of the cowering Commander Stockade as Shi Maria rampages through the ballroom. The spider slashes his legs off and he collapses to the floor. Her eye then opens and her Insanity spell takes the surviving Lemig Goblins; as Luke drags himself toward the exit, a possessed soldier walks up and stabs him in the back with a long segmented blade, pulls it free, takes two steps, and cuts his own throat.

Stockade never recovers. Through the rest of the inquiry he tears out his own fur and moans Luke's name, mourning his "zomp-hued thighs" and repeating "I loved him," before beating his own face to pulp against the floor and dying of what the system rules a psychosis-induced suicide.

Appearance

A Lemig goblin with zomp-hued thighs, legless and dragging himself across the ballroom floor after Shi Maria's strike.

Role

Stockade's lover and bodyguard, whose death breaks the warlord and ends the ceasefire.

Relationships

Commander Stockade — His warlord and lover, whose grief for him proved fatal.
Shi Maria — Severed his legs during the ballroom rampage.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 23
  • Lemig goblin general and Stockade's beloved family member, killed by a controlled soldier in the throne room massacre.
Chapter 24
  • Stockade's dead friend, whose loss he mourns loudly and inconsolably throughout the hearing.
Chapter 25
  • Stockade's beloved Lemig goblin who threw himself in front of his warlord and was killed by Shi Maria's rampage.
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