
However, around 535 PD, Gruumsh-worshipping goblins stormed the Lushgut Forest and desecrated Sepesca, the Ki'Nau's holiest of burial temples, where Melora's blood was said to have spilled before the Divergence. In the first centuries after the Calamity, the goblinkin tribes of Xhorhas were mostly confined to that region of Wildemount: Uk'otoa guarded the waters to the south for the Ki'Nau, and the surviving dwarves of Grimgolir prevented any tribes from moving to the west.

The goblins left behind there have run wild across the Rifenmist Peninsula and even into the rest of Tal’Dorei for centuries. īane and his goblinoid legions repeatedly clashed with Melora and her followers, and she finally defeated him in the south of the continent now called Tal'Dorei. As the war raged on, even those loyal to him were corrupted to fill the ranks. When Bane needed skirmishers, he twisted some dranassar slaves into goblins for other roles he created hobgoblins and bugbears. Those who opposed him were bent to his will and were corrupted first.

Many of them, enthralled by Bane's power, followed him willingly, and their capital of Ghor Dranas became the seat of the Betrayer Gods' power. During the Calamity, the evil god of war and conquest, Bane, the Strife Emperor, revealed himself to the dranassar, a strong, cunning, multitudinous race of humanoids then living in what is now Xhorhas.
