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[Pita]

Although I suppose it's only my imagination confusing personalities and looks, and projecting the first onto the latter, I now envision goblins as being potentially much better-looking than I once had. And that makes me happy.

[qbert911]

I really, really, really liked the story. The writing may not be God-Tier but the world and the emotions it evoked made this a very enjoyable and only slightly weepy read. 

The analysis is like the creamy icing on a tasty cake. The guided tour of how (portions of) this story could one day be procedurally generated is... MY GOD... ITS FULL OF STARS 

[Bacu]

That was a nice read. Every story makes me anticipate a version of DF that can generate these storylines even more.

[CobaltKobold]

I loved it. I have one overwhelming comment to make about this story that I think most would agree with:

This has multiplied my respect for DF's goblins immeasurably.
[snip]

Thank you so much for this story.

Agree with all.

[Dakk]

Ohhh we finally get some insight on goblin society. So they aren't aways happy to be ruled by an ancient fire breathing clown, and now we know a bit more about the whole snatching business.

A very nice read, keep it comming.

[insectcalm]

Great story, Threetoe. I like the interplay between the two cultures and hope that translates to DF.

[Grocer]

Although I suppose it's only my imagination confusing personalities and looks, and projecting the first onto the latter, I now envision goblins as being potentially much better-looking than I once had. And that makes me happy.

Perhaps elven princesses are simply far uglier than you had imagined.  And so very slutty. 

[Durin]

Although I suppose it's only my imagination confusing personalities and looks, and projecting the first onto the latter, I now envision goblins as being potentially much better-looking than I once had. And that makes me happy.

Perhaps elven princesses are simply far uglier than you had imagined.  And so very slutty. 

ROFL!

Aaaaah me.  Yeah I was not fond of the interbreeding thing.  It's rather a mystery how races able to interbreed and also in close proximity to one another would retain such extremes of diversity.  Now, maybe if there were an aspect of the Spirit referenced that made cross breeding something magical, well... that makes it much better.

I also will add my vote to the chorus calling this one of the better Three Toe stories I have read so far.  I haven't read as many as I suppose most here have, but I have been through 5 or 6 now and this was by far the most memorable.

[PTTG??]

You know, I kinda figured that there'd be a sort of "Social Darwinism" aspect to goblins- they seem to take murder in stride, and yet they haven't all killed each other, so there must be SOME way for their culture to work. It's also interesting to see a justification for all the baby snatching.

[RantingRodent]

Adding a sense of self-awareness to the goblins does cast them in a very different light. I much prefer them this way. A relatively mundane race that is completely evil is rather far-fetched. This feels a lot more real than the one-dimensional troublemaking evildoers typical of Goblins in fantasy.

In the case of races which secure leaders from outside their culture in some way or another, will the personality and culture of that leader be gradually reflected in the tribe(s) that they lead? Would Durangel's goblins, on an individual level, be more nature-friendly to some extent? Would the traces of humanity we see in this story completely disappear in the goblins led by a demon?

[atomfullerene]

"the forest had spoken" is proper English, it implies a greater sense of finality than "the forest spoke".  It's...past perfect tense, or something like that.  It's been a long time since I took Latin. 

Also the idea of half elf, half goblin reminds me of playing Munchkin. 

[The Architect]

Past participle in this case. It is indeed correct english, but its proper usage depends on circumstance (of course).

[Footkerchief]

Past participle in this case. It is indeed correct english, but its proper usage depends on circumstance (of course).

The tense isn't "past participle."  That's not a tense, at least not for a verb.  The past participle is combined with a helping verb like "has" to form a full verb with an actual tense -- in this case, the past perfect tense, a.k.a. the pluperfect.

Anyway, yeah, "had spoken" was correct and "The forest spoke" wouldn't have made any sense, but Threetoe knows that and was being nice by letting the in-correction slide.

[FluffyToast J]

And now for something completely different:

Be taken away by Snatcher

Oh, you. I see what you did there.

[The Architect]

I didn't say it was a tense. I said "had" is the past participle. It is. Other than derailing this for a grammar feud...

Again, good story. I attribute the minor grammar errors (which didn't include this) to typo's.