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Volume 4

• (To Osthia) “Kill you? You and I…we have the same enemy. You will help me.”
• To Osthia:
  • “Cannot kill. Cannot run. Is good you are not causing trouble. But if you are frustrated, attack me and not my people.”
  • “You will come. To see. You watch me. You want to know what I do. You would not turn down this chance. You watch and I watch.”
  • “I can sense them. Other Chieftains. Other Goblin Lords, too. Bright. In the distance like…lights.”
  • “Cannot tell. Too far. Only know two…three Chieftains close here. More distant. And many, many more further away. Across oceans…no Goblin Lords on this continent. Just I. And I am brightest.”
  • “To survive of course. It is easy. I win three battles and my people live.”
  • “Goblins need a home. Goblins cannot be separate. We are too weak. We are hunted. So I will build one. I will win three battles. One against the Goblins who rebel. Another against the Humans. And a third, defending our home. I will build it in the mountains. And when all three battles are won, Goblins will know peace.”
  • “Drakes? Drakes don’t go north! Drakes don’t trust Humans and Humans don’t like Drakes. If I find a place for my people, one side will send armies and the other one will squabble and do nothing. We will be a thorn for one and good for the other. You know that.”
  • “Three victories. One against Goblins. Then my army is strong. The second against Humans to show them we cannot be defeated. The last to defend a home, to show them that we are here to stay. It is possible! I have an army. I have a people. I have everything you Drakes have, what Humans have. If I am strong, my people will live. And I am strong!”
  • “This was good training.”
  • “Hmm. Wrong word? Learning, then. I learn. How to hide troops, how to send them here and here. Your Drake [General] and Gnoll [General] taught me how to lead an army. Now I learn how to fight best with one. Learning, always learning. That is what makes me strong.”
  • “Necromancer made me stronger. But I was always strong. Goblins are weak. But we grow. We learn. And we take. From you. From Drakes, from Humans, from everyone. We take and take. And someday we won’t need to take any more. Someday we will be like you. And we will have a home.”
  • “Home.”
  • “Soon.”
• To Zel:
  • “I’m sorry. It was not a worthy death. Cowardly. It was—”
  • “You did. You protected them. Your people. You did it. It was a good job.”
  • “No. No name. Just Goblin Lord. Apprentice. Goblin.”
  • “I will. And I will avenge. Avenge you and my people. I swear it. The Necromancer will die by my hand.”

Volume 5

• (To Tremborag) “The Goblin King was kind. He let those afraid to die run. He left your home and your tribe alone, Great Chieftain. But I am not kind. Your tribe is mine.”
• (To Garen) “The ‘Great Chieftain’ declines. But what of you, Redfang? You swore to follow me if I had the right idea. If I had a vision. Do you forget your promise of long ago?”
• (To Tremborag) “For one Goblin I would kill you, Tremborag of the Mountain. For one of my people I would bring ruin to your mountain and shatter your tribe. For the thousands that have died, I will make you suffer before you go.”
• (To Quietstab's dead body) “I’m sorry. But she is my ally now. Tremborag has Garen. I will have your Chieftain. And I will lead her tribe to a safer place. I promise you.”
• To Erin Solstice:
  • “I’m sorry.”
  • “I never wanted this. I only wanted my people to be safe. For there to be a place—one place in this world—where Goblins could live. One place.”
  • “I never wanted this. But I wanted this. I wanted to take something from them. Everyone who had taken from me. I wanted—to hurt them.”
  • “Didn’t they? They lived while my people died. That’s enough.”
  • “If only I had seen it. If only I had been there. I wish I had met you long ago. If I had—”
  • “This isn’t our world. We’re just monsters. Why? We didn’t ask…we didn’t want to be. Why us?”
  • “From the start we were made like this. Enemies. From the very start. That was what he said. Why us? Was it punishment?”
  • “Not so simple. I tried. Goblin Lords have tried. Kings have tried. We all fail. And we die. Look—”
  • “I tried. I did it all for them. I think I forgot.”
  • “Someday Goblins will know peace. Surely?”
  • “Someday. Someday…”

Volume 7

• (To Numbtongue) “So what am I? A soul? A fragment? A memory? Let me help you. That’s why I’m here.”
• (To Numbtongue) “Don’t tell her that I am here. Please.”
• (To Numbtongue) “Listen to me. They are wrong, in the inn. They see nothing with magic. No Skills work on Erin. But she is not dead.”
• (To Garen) “Because you are needed. For one last fight. Brother.”
• To Numbtongue:
  • “Back! Do not touch her! Back—”
  • “Over? Done? Who…who are you?”
  • “Thank you. Thank you.”

Volume 8

• To himself & Numbtongue:
  • “A vision of the future. What might have been. They still remembered. I never forgot. Again and again, even this much is taken.”
  • “Once. I grew up in this tribe. Ghostly Hand. My name…someone gave me my name. And they called me…”

Volume 9

• (To Numbtongue) “It should have been like that. All along.”