Line #240 Characters/TheSmirvlakTrilogy


1	The characters from ''The Smirvlak Trilogy'', which includes ''Literature/SmirvlaksStone'', ''Smirvlak's Followers'', and ''Smirvlak's Wrath''.
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3	'''Some spoilers are unmarked.'''
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6	[[foldercontrol]]
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8	!!Main Characters
9
10	[[folder:Nickolas "Nick" Corveel]]
11
12	-->''"YEAH! WE'RE GOING ON AN ADVENTURE!"''
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14	The younger of the two goblin Corveel brothers.
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16	* AmbiguousDisorder: Nick mentioned that he's been called a "retard" multiple times growing up. While Nick does act like a {{Manchild}} or a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and is very clingy to Gnek, he's actually a lot smarter than he appears to be and knows the definition of words most goblins don't know.
17	* TheAntiNihilist: Nick knows that life can end at any moment for anybody. It's ''because'' of this that he chooses to act foolish and carefree, since he figured he may as well spend his life being happy.
18	* BringMyBrownPants: PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler:Nick soils himself after he discovers Stilyk's body and has a mental breakdown]].
19	* CombatPragmatist: Stilyk teaches Nick not to fight, but to survive. And the first he teaches him is to fight dirty, such as using a GroinAttack against foes.
20	* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:He gets the most screentime in ''Smirvlak's Stone'' and the story makes him out to be one of the central characters in the whole trilogy. He's killed at the end of the first novel, right before two more protagonists are introduced]].
21	* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler:After Nick finds out Gnek killed their parents, he becomes so distraught that he sees no purpose in life anymore]].
22	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Nick is much less mature compared to Gnek, and he frequently acts like an oblivious child.
23	* {{Gasshole}}: He's very flatulent, and has a habit of intentionally farting around others to annoy them for his own amusement.
24	* GetItOverWith: [[spoiler:After Gnek explains that he murdered their parents and is trying to destroy all life on earth, Gnek tells him to go ahead and kill him because he has nothing left to live for]].
25	* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler:One of the kindest, albeit naive, characters in the ''Legatum'' series is murdered by the end of ''Smirvlak's Stone'']].
26	* PottyFailure: He violently shits himself in chapter 1 of ''Smirvlak's Stone'' while he's throwing up and suffering from a hangover.
27	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:His last words are him calmly and coldly chewing out his brother on how he's just a pessimistic, cowardly sadist]].
28	--> '''Nick''': "[[spoiler:I hate you. You are a coward, and a hypocrite, and a manipulative cunt. You whine about how people fabricate history, yet you won't acknowledge that you yourself have done the same thing when it comes to who ''truly'' killed our parents. You think that I'm an idiot, yet you were the one who wasted so much time trying to force me to conform to your beliefs, thinking I'd be stupid enough to bow down and submit to your will. You say life is meaningless, but let's face it: you're just a cold-hearted sadistic twat who is using his pessimism as an excuse to justify his actions. I was raped only one night ago, and I would rather experience that pain ten times over than die knowing that the only person I loved betrayed me. I hope you can't eat after tonight. I hope I haunt you while you sleep and you wake up every morning finding out that you pissed yourself with fright. I hope that you're so tormented by this that you end up killing yourself. And when I see your soul burning in Hell for all eternity, and you see mine, and you ask for forgiveness? I’m gonna look the other way. Because there's not a fucking thing you can do to stop me from hating you.]]"
29	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:His death, alongside Stilyk's, hammered in that AnyoneCanDie in the trilogy--especially given that Nick was implied to be the main protagonist]].
30	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Gnek kills him]].
31	* StressVomit: When he's caught in the middle of a Yellow Fang raid, he starts throwing up profusely after witnessing several grisly murders.
32	* WalkingShirtlessScene: He nevers wears a shirt at any point in ''Smirvlak's Stone''.
33	* WideEyedIdealist: Deconstructed. Nick knows that there are horrible things in the world, but due to his obliviousness, his dependence of his brother, and his AmbiguousDisorder, he's incapable of actually seeing and comprehending it, only choosing to see the good in society. [[spoiler:So when Nick is raped, discovers that his brother is part of a cult trying to destroy the world, and realizes that Gnek murdered their parents, he sees no point in living anymore and tells Gnek to kill him]].
34	* YouNeedABreathMint: Similar to Gnek, he's got foul breath--something his brother and a few other characters comment on.
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36	[[/folder]]
37
38	[[folder:Gnekvizz "Gnek" Corveel]]
39
40	-->''"Life is just...a pointless series of events happening that people will inevitably forget about. It's generation upon generation of races and species coming and going, ultimately becoming extinct, because people aren't capable of giving up their self-destructive, violent tendencies."''
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42	The older of the two goblin Corveel brothers.
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44	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Gnekvizz is the true villain of the trilogy]].
45	* BigBrotherInstinct: Subverted. Gnek's relationship with his brother is estranged, and he constantly keeps leaving him for Tallak to take care of him. [[spoiler:Fully inverted by the end of ''Smirvlak's Stone'', where he reveals that he hates Nick and ends up killing him when he refuses to join his cult]].
46	* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler:He acts friendly, but he's really a nihilistic sociopath who doesn't care about anyone and is solely concerned on destroying the world]].
47	* CombatPragmatist: Like Nick and Stilyk, he isn't a good fighter even though he knows how to use magic. And just like them, he fights dirty when he has to.
48	* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Not including the actions of the Yellow Fang triibe, Gnek was behind everything in ''Smirvlak's Stone''. He manipulated Nick and Stilyk into escorting him to Erelorn after he found out Stilyk had the eponymous stone. Once he delivered it to the Sect, he killed Stilyk and Nick]].
49	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Gnek is much more responsible and mature compared to his younger, naive brother Nick.
50	* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:He murdered his own parents after they caught him having sex in their home at night and chastised him for his homosexual tendencies]].
51	* StraightGay: Gnek is openly homosexual, although he doesn't look or sound like he is. Hardly anyone even assumes this unless he starts flirting with male characters.
52	* StrawNihilist: He sees no purpose in life, and thinks that once he dies, everyone will forget about him and fabricate what truly happened in his life. [[spoiler:This is largely the reason why he wants to destroy the world by resurrecting Smirvlak, to show everyone just how meaningless life can be]].
53	* WalkingSpoiler: With the exception that he's Nick's older brother, saying anything else about Gnek spoils his entire character.
54	* YouNeedABreathMint: Just like Nick, Gnek has bad breath, and both he and other characters openly tell him this.
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56	[[/folder]]
57
58	[[folder:Stilyk Cruun]]
59
60	-->''"Mind explaining to me why I'm suddenly traveling with two toad-faced mongrels?"''
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62	A wandering stilio who teams up with the Corveels after he tries selling the eponymous stone in Tallak's shop.
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64	* CombatPragmatist: Stilyk admits to Nick that he doesn't know how to fight. The only reason why he's still alive is because he knows how subdue his foes using dirty tactics. He even tells Nick this when he teaches him how to survive.
65	--> '''Stilyk''': "There is no such thing as fighting 'dirty.' This world is full of criminals, rapists, thieves, all that evil nonsense. ''None'' of them fight fair. At all. Don't you dare let someone tell you that you fight without honor or you fought 'dirty' just because you won a fight using unorthodox methods. That just makes you ''smart''. You wanna bring a bow and arrow to a sword fight, you go right on ahead and do that."
66	* DarkAndTroubledPast: When he was younger, his surrogate family was killed after his village was burned down by a dragon, and he spent the rest of his life wandering around and living on his own, steadily growing pessimistic as he grew older.
67	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:He's abruptly killed in chapter 14 of ''Smirvlak's Stone'', and his death is glossed over shortly after his body is found]].
68	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Gnek kills him off-screen, and Nick finds his body shortly after he's murdered]].
69	* LizardFolk: He's a stilio, an anthropomorphic lizard creature.
70	* MirrorCharacter: Stilyk finds out after revealing his past to Nick that he also had a similar upbringing. Both of them are orphans. Both of them are outcasts. And both of them seemingly had to grow up on their own.
71	--> '''Stilyk''': "You've any idea what it feels like to have your own kind hate you just because you're different from them?"
72	--> '''Nick''': "[[BluntYes Yes]]."
73	* PerpetualFrowner: He's usually bitter and constantly seen scowling. It isn't until he opens up to Nick about his past that he becomes nicer.
74	* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:He's killed towards the end of ''Smirvlak's Stone'', and his death hammered in for Nick that anyone, regardless of how likable or smart they are, can die at any time]].
75	* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler:How Gnek kills him]].
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77	[[/folder]]
78
79	!!Yellow Fang Tribe
80
81	[[folder:In General]]
82	* HeinousHyena: Everyone within the tribe is a gnoll, a bipedal, humanoid, hyena-like beast.
83	* ThePigPen: Most of the gnolls don't seem to bathe much. Some characters comment on how much they stink, and the narration mentions flies hovering around some of them.
84	* RapePillageAndBurn: All the gnolls are bloodthirsty beasts who thrive off raping and killing innocent people.
85	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:A good chunk of the tribe, including Nessla, decide to cut and run after they realize their leader is incompenent and going to get most, if not all of them killed--or kill them all himself. Given what happens at the end of ''Smirvlak's Stone'', they were right to abandon the tribe]].
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87	[[/folder]]
88
89	[[folder:Lorko Maeliss]]
90
91	-->''"I won't kill you. I'll be sure to make you my ''personal'' slave! I'll even wrap a collar around your neck, just to let everyone know that you're my prized pet!"''
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93	The leader of the Yellow Fang tribe.
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95	* BadBoss: Deconstructed. Lorko frequently kills his own minions for failure, or for petty reasons. He also gets several members of his tribe killed and never owns up to any of his mistakes, instead using his failures as a reason to blame his tribe. After doing this one too many times, [[spoiler:Nessla and several gnolls in the tribe decide to leave while he's unconscious, and what's left of the Yellow Fang no longer respects him]].
96	* CombatPragmatist: He never fights fair. Whenever Lorko chooses, he relies on dirty tactics, his minions, and his skills in dark magic to defeat his enemies.
97	* DepravedHomosexual: Lorko is never seen having sexual attraction towards females, and he only rapes males. Even when he raided Nessla's village, he ignored Nessla, and instead raped her brother.
98	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:He's killed near the end of ''Smirvlak's Stone'', just two chapters before it's revealed that Gnekvizz is the true villain of the trilogy]].
99	* ExcrementStatement: After he kills the strongest goblin within Nick and Gnek's village, he "honors" him by peeing on his corpse.
100	* ItsAllAboutMe: Lorko cares about no one but himself. He constantly reminds his minions that ''he'' runs the Yellow Fang tribe whenever any of them try to say that it's "our tribe."
101	* NeverMyFault: Exaggerated. Lorko ''never'' admits to his mistakes or his various failures throughout the story, even when his own minions call him out on it. He even goes as far as blaming them, even though they did nothing wrong but follow ''his'' orders.
102	* {{Patricide}}: He murdered his father when he was only a pup.
103	* TheSociopath: He treats the Yellow Fang tribe as if it were his own prize possession that he can freely abuse as he wants, not caring that the members of said tribe are living, breathing individuals. It's also clear he doesn't care about anyone, considering how often he murders his minions and how he killed his own father and sold his mother to be a sex slave.
104	* SmugSnake: A colossal one. Lorko acts like he knows what he's doing, but he frequently makes decisions that get his gnolls killed. Not only does he never take responsibilty for his screw-ups, he blames and sometimes kills members of his tribe whenever they call him out on it.
105	* StressVomit: He throws up after he's wounded and overexerted from fighting several orcs.
106	* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:His penis is bitten off while he's orally raping a goblin, and then he's stabbed to death while screaming hysterically. To rub further salt in the wound, it was ''Nick'' who killed him]].
107	* TheUnfettered: The only thing Lorko cares about is retrieving his stone once again. He doesn't care who he has to kill in order to require the stone again, even if it means slaughtering his own minions for failure or willingly leading them to their deaths.
108	* WalkingShirtlessScene: He only wears a red bandanna and reddish-brown trousers.
109	* YouNeedABreathMint: Several characters have told Lorko to his face that his breath stinks. Tallak even tried to give him a makeshift concoction of mouthwash.
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111	[[/folder]]
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113	[[folder:Nessla]]
114
115	-->''"We-we are not as worthy as you; please, allow us to retrieve this stone as means of atonement."''
116
117	Lorko's personal advisor who was forced into the Yellow Fang tribe.
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119	* AntiVillain: Nessla isn't part of the Yellow Fang by choice. The only reason why she's working alongside them is because Lorko's tribe killed her family and raped her into submission. [[spoiler:Eventually she gets fed up with Lorko's antics and leaves him]].
120	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Nessla originally wasn't a violent gnoll--and still isn't. Lorko's gnolls raided her village and killed her family. Then Lorko had several of his gnolls rape her, and she was forced into working alongside him.
121	* TheDragon: She's Lorko's primary aid and advisor, and he always reports to her whenever he needs advice.
122	* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnFemale: Averted. While not onscreen, Lorko isn't shy about reminding Nessla about how he allowed the ''females'' in his tribe rape Nessla. It's evident that she's still humiliated by the incident, and he used said incident to cull her into working for him.
123	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler:The second Nessla sees an opportunity to leave Lorko after he got half his tribe killed, she takes it, and brings other reluctant gnolls with her]].
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125	[[/folder]]
126
127	[[folder:Wervin & Loxx]]
128
129	--> '''Loxx''': ''"Where first, Great One? Where first?"''
130	--> '''Wervin''': ''"Yes, Fierce Leader! Shall we pick the little goblins' bones clean until one talks?"''
131
132	Two prominent gnolls within the Yellow Fang tribe.
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134	* AmbiguouslyGay: Wervin and Loxx may have been lovers. After [[spoiler:Wervin dies, Loxx breaks down crying hysterically and begs Lorko to try and resurrect him, saying he "needs him."]] Lorko also refers to Wervin as Loxx's "friend" with emphasis.
135	* BerserkerTears: [[spoiler:Loxx sheds them after Wervin dies]].
136	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Wervin is impaled in the abdomen by an orc's spear]].
137	* VerbalTic: Loxx tends to repeat some of the phrases he said in one sentence to form a new, shorter one.
138	* WalkingShirtlessScene: Neither of them wears a shirt throughout ''Smirvlak's Stone''.
139	* YouNeedABreathMint: When Mellis insults Wervin and says he's part of the "Bad Breath tribe," Loxx agrees. Wervin punches him in the muzzle with annoyance.
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141	[[/folder]]
142
143	[[folder:Karlnok]]
144
145	-->''"Who the fuck are you, Lorko? Some fierce leader? Some 'Mighty One'? Some almighty being? Uh-uh...nah. You the same as all of us: just another dirty-ass gnoll."''
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148	A rebellious member within the Yellow Fang tribe.
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150	* {{Autocannibalism}}: [[spoiler:Lorko becomes so frustrated over Karlnok's attitude that he hypnotizes him into eating himself until he dies]].
151	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Lorko uses dark magic to brainwash Karlnok into eating his own eyeballs and ''testicles''. He presumably eats the rest of his flesh]].
152	* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Lorko either carves out his eye and makes Karlnok eat them, or he brainwashed Karlnok into doing it]].
153	* {{Hypocrite}}: Karlnok frequently criticizes Lorko on being overconfident, never acknowledging that he himself gets overconfident when he keeps insulting Lorko over and over again.
154	* KilledOffscreen: [[spoiler:Karlnok is last seen still alive, but horribly mutilated. It's obvious he either bled to death, or he continued feasting on his own flesh until the shock killed him]].
155	* SmugSnake: Karlnok repeatedly lectures Lorko on how incompetent he is, despite knowing he's dangerous and longing to kill him. He spends most of his time insulting Lorko without contributing to the tribe and pushing his buttons. [[spoiler:Lorko eventually gets fed up with it and kills him]].
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157	[[/folder]]
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159	[[folder:Naviz]]
160
161	-->''"Sleep...tired. I-I was tired, Mighty One."''
162
163	The gnoll who unintentionally lost the eponymous stone in ''Smirvlak's Stone''.
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165	* EyeScream: Lorko gouged out his right eye offscreen as punishment for failure.
166	* SmallRoleBigImpact: The only reason why Lorko started chasing after the Corveel brothers and Stilyk was because Naviz fell asleep when he was supposed to be looking after the stone. As a result, Stilyk was able to steal it while Naviz was sleeping.
167	* YouHaveFailedMe: Even after Lorko brutally tortures him and Naviz begs for forgiveness, Lorko kills him anyway.
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169	[[/folder]]
170
171	[[folder:Klorrvik]]
172
173	-->''"It’s time for someone else to rule this tribe!"''
174
175	A member of the tribe who challenges Lorko to a fight to the death.
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177	* DuelToTheDeath: Defied. Klorrvik challenges Lorko to one of these fights. Lorko promptly stabs him in the throat before Klorrvik can even pull his weapon.
178	* TooDumbToLive: Klorrvik should've known better than to challenge Lorko, a shameless CombatPragmatist, to a fair fight, especially given how Lorko killed Gulvaxx the Great.
179	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He challenges Lorko to a fight, claiming that he'll be the reason behind the tribe's downfall. After that, he's killed.
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181	[[/folder]]
182
183	!!Other Characters
184
185	[[folder:Mulvernt]]
186
187	-->See the [[Characters/LegatumRecurringCharacters Recurring Characters]] page.
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189	[[/folder]]
190
191	[[folder:Mellis]]
192
193	-->''"Errybody lookit Mellis, see how gross he is! But I ain’t care! Shit’s a shield, me goblin brethren! Best believe it!"''
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196	A goblin Nick encounters in a village who scoops up dung in the streets.
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198	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: He's a very odd goblin who seems convinced that fecal matter and "embracing its stench" is the key to survival.
199	* EyeScream: Mellis has only one eye, and doesn't even wear an eyepatch to cover up his visibly eye socket.
200	* OffWithHisHead: He's decapitated by Wervin.
201	* ThePigPen: He's visible filthy and isn't keen on hygiene, and it's implied that the "brown blotches" he's covered in is excrement.
202	* WeHardlyKnewYe: All that's revealed about Mellis before he dies is that he has a bizarre fixation on excrement.
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204	[[/folder]]
205
206	[[folder:Dyls'lyk]]
207
208	-->''"Couple drinks don't give ya busted eyes, Gnek!"''
209
210	One of the goblins who lives in the same village as the Corveel brothers.
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212	* {{Jerkass}}: His only bit of screentime is spent lecturing Gnekvizz for going to a tavern and telling him he should've stayed at home.
213	* KilledOffscreen: He and the other goblins in the village are slaughtered offscreen by the Yellow Fang tribe.
214	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He only has a few lines after his debut, and is killed in chapter 3 of ''Smirvlak's Stone''.
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216	[[/folder]]
217
218	[[folder:Gulvaxx the Great]]
219
220	-->''"Put 'em swords up. Let's see if'n ya can 'andle Gulvaxx the Great!"''
221
222	A goblin warrior who lives in the same village as the Corveel brothers.
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224	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's killed very anticlimactically before he even has the chance to fight Lorko.
225	* DualWielding: He fights with two scimitars.
226	* WeHardlyKnewYe: All we know about him is that he's the village's best warrior. Given how easily he died, this may have been an exaggeration.
227	* WorldsBestWarrior: Subverted. He's the best fighter within the village. [[OneHitKill Shame he]] [[CurbStompBattle went up against a]] CombatPragmatist.
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230	[[/folder]]
231
232	[[folder:Tallak]]
233
234	-->''"Explain yerself, Gnekvizz Corveel!"''
235
236	The goblin merchant who lives in the same village as the Corveel brothers. He's also frequently allows them to reside in his shop.
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238	* DefiantToTheEnd: Subverted. Tallak initially refuses to give up information to Lorko regarding the stone and the Corveel brothers, not caring that he'll die. But after Lorko sodomizes him, he breaks down and tells him all he knows.
239	* KilledOffscreen: Just before Lorko rapes him, the story cuts to the scene afterwards. The narration mentions that after Lorko got a confession from Tallak, he killed him.
240	* OffWithHisHead: Lorko cuts off his head shortly after interrogating and raping him.
241	* SacrificialLamb: He has the most screentime and lines out of all the goblins in the village and seemed like he'd be a recurring character in the trilogy. He's killed early on in ''Smirvlak's Stone'' to show that Lorko will be a prominent threat throughout the story.
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244	[[/folder]]
245
246	[[folder:Swolotch Bollon]]
247
248	-->''"What's a filthy mutt like you doin' in ''my'' territory?!"''
249
250	The leader of a fiscian tribe, and a member of the Bollon Empire.
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252	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: He's abruptly stabbed in the throat while ranting about his past atrocities.
253	* FatBastard: He's visibly obese compared to everyone else in his tribe, and he's a narcissistic, borderline sociopath who willingly lets his tribe starve.
254	* KilledMidSentence: Lorko stabs him in the throat while he's in the midst of ranting about how great he is.
255	* MirrorCharacter: Swolotch is exactly the same as Lorko Maeliss. Both of them are sociopaths. Both of them only care about themselves. Neither of them care about how much their tribe suffers. Both of them ''claim'' to be great leaders who accomplished many goals, but are shown to be incompetent [[SmugSnake Smug Snakes]]. [[spoiler:And both of them are killed ignominiously]].
256	* {{Narcissist}}: He spends most of his time gloating about how great he is and how his villagers adore him.
257	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He's a narcissist who, allegedly, took over a couple kingdoms, killed an empress, and tamed a tribe. Shortly afterwards, Lorko kills him.
258
259	[[/folder]]
260
261	[[folder:Aldar Mon'lyk]]
262
263	-->''"I am...I'm only thinking ahead, Great One. In case we run into trouble."''
264
265	A member of Swolotch Bollon's tribe.
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267	* AntiVillain: Aldar isn't malicious by choice. The only reason why he joins the Yellow Fang tribe is because Lorko freed him and the other fiscians by killing Swolotch, and because he promised them food they desperately needed.
268	* TheDragon: To Swolotch Bollon. Later on [[CoDragons he joins this position alongside Nessla]] to Lorko Maeliss.
269	* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:It's mentioned in the narration that he got his head cut in half while fighting a group of orcs]].
270	* ImAHumanitarian: Like the other fiscians in his tribe, he's a cannibal, and he wastes no time eating Swolotch's corpse along with the other fiscians. Justified, given how everyone in the tribe was starving and malnourished.
271	* MirrorCharacter: He's very similar to Nessla. Both of them are generally affable people who were forced into following a homicidal, sociopathic tribe leader. Both of them were culled by their leaders. Both of them are much smarter than their leaders and know their leaders will ultimately lead to their downfall. The only major difference between them is that [[spoiler:Nessla decided to cut and run before it was too late, while Aldar blindly followed Lorko and ended up getting killed, along with the rest of the tribe]].
272	* MookPromotion: Aldar was just another fiscian following Swolotch who happened to have a name. He's promoted to being Lorko's second advisor, and the new leader of the fiscian tribe, after Lorko murders Swolotch.
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