Quotes[edit | edit source]
Volume 4[edit | edit source]
- (To Lyon) “No offense. Clarify. To Drake. Why Goblins not speak.”
- (To Drassi) “Goblins can speak. Speak all kinds of word. And can hear. Can listen. Don’t speak because we don’t need. Understand?”
Volume 5[edit | edit source]
- (To Erin) “Everyone in the world is hunting. So what? Nothing new.”
- (To Comrades) “This place is too…nice.”
- (To Comrades) “Death below. Or useless death above. Shame-worse-than-death.”
- (To Headscratcher) “Redfang! Fight! A Goblin’s pride! A warrior’s right! Redfang! Redfang!”
- (To Erin) “Can’t let go. She will go back. Or die. A Goblin alone dies to monsters. To adventurers. It is one of the worst deaths. Slow, lonely death. Wandering death. Cruel death.”
- (To Yvlon) “We care about artifacts. Not shiny things. They’re too shiny. Too heavy. Not useful. Good for adventurer traps, maybe.”
- (To Yellow Splatters) “You fought Raskghar. We respect that. They killed many, many Goblins. Soldiers killed many Raskghar. Fought bravely. Respect.”
- (To Greydath) “This is…Wandering Inn tribe. New tribe. Very new. Many Goblins come. From dungeon?”
- (To Greydath) “We know. We knew we could not stay. We knew it had to change. But why—why—”
- (To Greydath) “Why did you have to take that from us? Why you?”
- (To Erin) “The Human army is coming. The Goblin Lord is coming. They’ll kill a city and start a war. Will you stay? Will you run? We can protect you.”
- (To Erin) “Not our city. Nor our people. And Humans—we don’t care what they do. But you stayed. So we stay. The Goblin Lord is ours. And he is wrong.”
Volume 6[edit | edit source]
- (To Liscorian) “But we fought for you. We did. We fought. Why did we die? For what? For this? For stones and you? For what?”
- (To Jelaqua) “I wasn’t mad. You’re right. Your offer is generous. I would have said yes. But I belong here.”
- (To himself) “Goblin got gold! Goblin goes home! Goblin…this is a bad song.”
Volume 7[edit | edit source]
- (To Bird) “Antinium stood in Pallass. First time. Like a Goblin in Liscor.”
- (To Erin) “It’s fine. I will be strong. Protect you. And this place. And when I find them—I will be strong.”
- (To Erin) “You can make…magical food. Like potions. And you do not?”
- (To Erin) “You did good things. I know that.”
- (To Mrsha) “[Warrior] class is not for you. Redfang Goblins hit and get hit. Cute Gnolls are too weak.”
- (To Nolocks) “No killing anyone. I—am Numbtongue. Former Redfang. I protect this place. Kill only people who attack. Monsters. Human [Innkeeper] who is friend? That is Erin Solstice. I protect her.”
- (To Erin) “He was a Goblin. Not like me. Just a kind of Goblin.”
- (To Jasi) “What, fellow person? I am just going for a walk. I am not a Goblin.”
- (To Erin) “Kill the adults. Let children go. Kill them if they grow up and try to kill you. Or kill all of them.”
- (To Lyonette) “I’m not your child. And you’re not my Chieftain.”
Volume 8[edit | edit source]
- (To Merzun) “Mage. You come back—you die. Next time, you die. Anyone who tries, [Mage], Archmage, anyone. Understand?”
- (To Gna) “Who are you? Why do you want to find Mrsha?”
- (Thoughts) When you put it like that—an adventure. A quest, in Erin’s name. Perhaps there was some romance in it, despite the dire hour. Because of the need.
- (To himself/Song) “To find the missing child and bring her home, across Izril we go. To the walls of the City of Waves or the High Passes, we fear no foe.”
- (Thoughts at Wil) What is it like, being a [Lord]? What is Terandria like? What are your thoughts on the Ailendamus-Dawn Concordat conflict, because I have a [Princess] I know who’s quite invested in the subject? Also, my idiot brother might be running around disguised as a [Knight]—don’t tell anyone.