Corin is real (TTRPG Story)
I just finished a game of DND earlier with friends where our DM utilized the Anbennar setting as the homebrew setting for her campaign. Overall super fun campaign, with a lot of stories to tell about it, but I'm gonna focus on one story that just happened earlier because it was just so funny that I thought I had to share it.
Alright so we're a party of 4 guys, half-gob (me) is a warrior cavalier from escann, a spellblade half-elf warlock from Pashaine, a cleric dwarf from Dur-Vazhatun, and a goliath paladin from Dalr. Our backstories don't really matter much beyond mine, as my gob's religion is the "avatar cult" flavor of Goblin Shamanism, which I choose to interpret is generally Regent Court but with all the gods being goblins with goblinized names.
Anyway one day I go adventuring off-screen with my mount in the sewers where I find a bunch of loot, I manage to sell most of it except for one thing: a small, pocket-sized portrait of Corin as a goblin. I'm unable to sell it after a long day of off-screen pawning, and my character takes that to mean it must be a sign from Corin herself that it is a blessed, holy artifact that she wants me to keep. This doesn't stop me from immediately trying to sell it to the next person though, a barkeep in an upscale part of town who just winces and goes "you know what, I agree, Corin doesn't want you to part with it."
Anyway, skip to the main dungeon, we decide to just talk our way into this slaver's manor to meet the head honcho to settle things diplomatically, and it all goes decently well until we meet the head mercenary: a paladin of Corin who sees through our initial blustering. My friend, the spellblade, tries to smooth things over by lying, trying to persuade the paladin in conversation, when my character notices the mark of Corin on the Paladin's armor. Absolutely soying out, I pull out the little pocket sized portrait of goblin Corin to show off.
My DM asks me to roll to see how the paladin would react, and I rolled a NATURAL 1.
So the paladin immediately gets pissed, doesn't say a word, and my DM rolls to see what he manages to do.
HE ROLLS A 20. And throws a dart STRAIGHT into the portrait of goblin Corin I have in my hand completely ruining it. And putting the entire operation at risk.
Overall, things went well, we managed to get out without fighting, but moral of the story ends up being: Corin is real, and Corin either does not want to be depicted as a goblin or doesn't want her holy artifacts treated as merchandise to sell. That is all