Editing Flooded Waters Tribe (section)

== Background ==
With an origin as the weakest tribe in the [[Floodplains]], the Flooded Waters tribe flourished under the new leadership of Rags, growing larger and more powerful through the course of the story, though not without their own calamities. Currently, they are one of the most powerful Goblin tribes on Izril.

However, since their technological developments, they absorbed any tribe that they could get their hands on. Meanwhile, the [[Redfang Tribe]] summoned many tribes to the [[High Passes]] in order to unite against the Flooded Waters tribe.

===Absorbed Tribes ===
While the Flooded Waters Tribe were initially few in number, under their new leader, Rags, they started overrunning the other Goblin Tribes by slaying or defeating their Chieftains and absorbing their Goblins into the tribe.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/05/21/2-02-g/ Chapter 2.02 G]</ref> Over time other Tribes started joining and letting themselves be absorbed all on their own.

Some of the known absorbed tribes are, the '''Jawbreaker Tribe''', '''Sword Taker Tribe''', '''Bloody Hand Tribe''', '''Gold Stone Tribe''',<ref name=":2" /> '''Still Grass Tribe''', '''Fire Bite Tribe''',<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/10/24/3-26-g/ Chapter 3.26 G]</ref> '''Furgather Tribe''',<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2017/11/07/3-31-g/ Chapter 3.31 G]</ref> '''Rockfall Tribe'''<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/04/28/4-32-g/ Chapter 4.32 G]</ref> and '''Frostfeeder Tribe'''.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2018/09/11/5-20-g/ Chapter 5.20 G]</ref>

There are two more Tribes that were only initially partially absorbed. These two tribes were the [[Redfang Tribe]] and the [[Mountain City Tribe]]. Following the Siege of Liscor, all remnants of those tribes along with those of [[Reiss]]' [[Army of the Goblin Lord|Army]] and the [[Cave Goblins]], were absorbed into Flooded Waters. 

After [[Goblinhome]] was established, Rabbiteater, under the guise of the Goblin Slayer, directed other tribes he came across to head towards Goblinhome, where other tribe members would escort them. Such tribes include the '''Rolling Rocks Tribe'''<ref>[[Interlude – Talia|Interlude - Talia]]</ref>. 

====Redfang Tribe====
While it was true that Garen, the Chieftain of the Redfang Tribe, intentionally lost to Rags, by Goblin traditions the Redfang Tribe should have been absorbed, but due to Garen usurping Rags’ authority, the absorption did not happen. This led to the Redfang Tribe splitting in two with those who saw Rags as their true new Chieftain and those who did not understand what was going on and were confused by the whole order but were still loyal to Garen.

When Rags finally had enough of Garen's insubordination, she abandoned him, and took the Redfangs that acknowledged Rags as leader with her, thus absorbing them into her own tribe.

The other Redfangs that stayed with Garen ultimately saw the error of their ways when they were reunited with Garen's [[Halfseekers|old adventurer team]] and [[Redfang Elite Warriors|5 of their lost brothers]]. After the Redfangs heard the true events of Garen's betrayal of the Halfseekers, and listened in on how they themselves had betrayed Rags by not siding with her from the start, the Redfangs changed their mind on who would be the true chieftain. Finally, the remaining Redfangs watched the five elite warriors stand up to and fight Garen because he was not their true Chieftain. This culminated with the remaining Redfangs leaving Garen and siding with their 5 lost brothers and thus with Rags.<ref>[https://wanderinginn.com/2019/02/09/5-58/ Chapter 5.58]</ref>

====Mountain City Tribe====
When Rags left [[Dwarfhalls Rest]], she took with her dissatisfied members of the Mountain City Tribe, such as Poisonbite's group, Noears, and Quietstab.

When Tremborag was slain by Tyrion Veltras, Rags' speech convinced roughly half of the Mountain City Tribe to join her over Reiss or Garen. However, before they could be fully integrated into the tribe, Reiss tried to murder Rags due to their conflicting plans, in an attempt to consolidate the combined Goblin forces under him. This resulted in most of Flooded Waters' new members being absorbed into the Goblin Lord's army.

When Reiss died, all remaining Mountain City members and Reiss' army joined Flooded Waters for good.