[Hookbill the Goomba]

In my univercity course (Creative Writing) we have a Fantasy Fiction module. As part of our coursework we have to make a biography of a new character for our imaginary world, and this is the one I did:

Lómmi was the daughter of Philip who was the son of Philipip, the emperor of the Penguins. She was born in Edarnia in the year that the great darkness of Fácen was driven away. For fifteen years she dwelt among the hills of Pengover and explored the barrows there in. There were many Penguins who came there and soon they grew in number to one hundred. They took Lómmi as their leader, wandering through the Pengish lands and making mischief. But when the Lizard King left for the land of Norán, they became worried, for the barrows were disturbed.
After one year of wandering, they took a boat to Bunchnoic, the Penguin settlement on the main land, and there explored the wide forests. When the Wolf clan began to rise and war broke out in Lizarn Major, the Penguins of Lómmi wandered into Fellin, a Bearish settlement. there they found a small town besieged by the wolf followers. Lómmi lead the Penguins in battle and they rescued the town from destruction. So, when they returned they had great renown among the Penguins and their number was made much greater. Seeing that they were strong and the Pengish folk willing, Lómmi lead them into the forest to attempt an assault upon Helzar, but they were driven back by a new evil. For some Penguins had been corrupted to the Wolf followers and they were red of feathers and green of eyes. The Blood-Penguins they were named.
For the next year they battled and were driven back over the sea to Edarnia until the Blood Penguins came after them. More of that great battle in Emporia is told in the Book of Diyn. But once all was won, though at great loss, Lómmi was distressed. For many of her friends had fallen in the battle and she took what remained of her folk and went to Penguve, the south Pole, and remained there until the final assault on Helzar began. Then she arose with ten thousand Penguins she had gathered in that time and won renown, yet lost many more things.
And when her father, Philip, announced that Wybren the Dragon would be made a Thain of Edarnia, she grew wrathful and asked him "Why have you done this thing? The Dragons are our foes and ever shall be."
"Wybren is a friend," said Philip, "and he has saved my feathers more times than I care to mention. Besides which, I say that the Dragons should be our friends." But Lómmi was reluctant.
She lived then in Emporia before sailing the sea to visit King Diyn by request. And he told her the tale of Philip and Wybren and so she understood. Yet she did not return to her father's house, but stayed in Lizarn until she died, aged 97. Wybren himself buried her next to her father in the barrows she had loved and so the peace between Penguins and Dragons begun.


But this is an abridged version.

Next week, I'll write about Rune the Bear who was the first to sail to the Drago Lands.