Sha

The Sha’Zin Empire worships no pantheon of Gods or Goddesses, their legendary Champion Sha ‘The Eternal’, having slain them a millennia ago as legend has it, as the ‘Gods’ were more trouble than they were worth. Sha The Unifyer is worshiped as a sort of god-like patron saint to those within the Empire, his statues and emblems criss-cross all architecture, scripture and lore within goblin society. Sha was the first hobgoblin to unify all of goblinkind under one banner, putting an end to the tribalistic infighting, and providing a caste system and rigid structure to keep the aggressive and brutal nature of goblinkind focused on conflicts abroad instead of within. It is said that, Sha The Unifyer ruled with an iron hand but one that was tempered by wisdom.

A warrior, scholar, and poet, as legend has it, Sha traveled Reth before uniting goblinkind, learning of its peoples and cultures. In this, the great hobgoblin found the races upon the mainland weak, soft and prone to desires that lead to the inevitable downfall of their civilizations: The constant desire for non-conflict. It was indulgence in the individual that brought ruin to these peoples, that Sha formulated the first laws of service, a means to create an empire based upon the good of the state, rather than the individual.

There are some whispers that Sha was not a man, but a woman, and that the Eight Great Houses created the myth of the Emperor's Decree, to never allow women to become Eternal Emperor, though this manner of thought is heretical to most all of goblinkind. The very utterance of it is blasphemy and subject to excommunication from goblin society.