It would actually be quite possible if you didn’t care about the state of your army when it arrived. One of the big reasons you normally can’t keep up a forced march like they are doing is because you would arrive at your destination completely exhausted and in no condition at all to fight.

If they are driving the goblins where most people think they are going, they’d need to travel around 500 miles in 14 days, or around 35 miles per day. Humans walk at about 3 miles per hour. That means about 11-12 hours of walking per day. Since the goblins aren’t really going in a straight line, the distance would be somewhat greater overall, which means either longer hours per day moving, or moving a bit faster. This is exactly what we see.

Again, this wouldn’t be something you’d want to put a normal army through. Between getting a camp broken down in the morning and put up again in the evening, stops to eat, drink, and rest, etc. you would need to move a fair bit faster than just a walking rate. But goblins don’t really make camp like humans would (usually), and are willing to eat on the move and such. They’d still get exhausted doing this day after day – again, exactly what we see – but if you don’t really care about the condition of said goblins other than them mostly being alive, it’s more than doable.

The humans herding them would get exhausted as well, but between them being almost all mounted, and having lots of commanders with movement skills, they could probably keep up this pace without too much burden.

There are likely not anywhere close to 100,000 cave goblins. Probably more like 10,000 at most. We know they outnumbered the Rhaskgar, of which there were a few thousand, but they didn’t seem to outnumber them 20:1, more like 2-3:1

Tremborag had something like 40,000 goblins under his control, and while he probably lacked a requirement to become a normal lord, if size was all it took that should be plenty. Reiss’ tribe wasn’t significantly larger than that by the time he reached the mountain, and I’m pretty sure was actually smaller when he fought the two drake armies. So size shouldn’t be the only factor.

These G chapters have been so painful to read. I was about to say that I miss the slice of life G chapters but I’m not even sure if I remember such chapters.

I doubt that the mortals had anything to do with the dead gods, it’s more likely that it when full Olympian mythology and there was a big war between the deities.

TWI is most definitely NOT grimdark. If you want grimdark, that’s Practical Guide to Evil.

It is the better tactical move, probably, but in the long run it would only continue the line of hatred, of kill and be killed (mostly be killed). If Pellias’ army failed 2 more would be sent, if those failed 8 more, up to the rest of the world killing them dead, just like the goblin king. The line of grudges and hatreds would continue, forever. And all would deserve it, because they started it. This would happen 100%, Rags realized this. She didn’t spare him because she’s gentle. She spared him because she saw the future, and she was sick of it. She wanted to try something different. Maybe it would help, maybe not, but she hoped.

Its a difficult concept to wrap your head around and truly comprehend aside from lip service. Even we, with the benefit of modern modes of thought and philosophy can have difficulty grasping it, even you.

I’ve been thinking for a while now that goblins are…
…wait for it ..
…elves.

Think about it. Pointy ears. Mysteriously all of the elves are gone. Some sort of terrible, tragic injustice was done to the goblins in the distant pass. Elves were tall and immortal and beautiful.

My theory: the elves took a leading role in the deaths of the gods. One or all of the gods cast their death curse on the elves, cursing then to be small and short-lived and hated by everyone.

I just hope that the curse is reversible — and that the goblins are okay with the change.

We seem to be reading very different books. ?

I think that Rags is a wonderfully nuanced character. She’s not the most amazing goblin. She’s not even a hob. But she is *learning*. And *growing*. In experience, in skill, and in…empathy, I guess, is the best term. Leaning to take the other side’s perspective. Learning to think long-term, which is not a traditional goblin skill.

I love reading Rags’ chapters. Partly for the other characters — Pyrite is wonderful — but mostly because of Rags.

One of the best things about TWI is that it’s got something for everyone. You don’t have to like Rags, and I don’t have to like Flos.

But I wanted to speak up for the Rags chapters, as someone who does love them.

Rags could see then fleeing.
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