How far have we come?

[Hannibal]

Does anyone know how far along the story we are? Is Goblins halfway complete or more? I am really hoping we haven't even hit the halfway point.

[RocketScientist]

This is all I've seen about that:

if I remember THunts tweets correctly, he still has more than two-thirds of the whole story notes ahead of him...

[DrinksTooMuchCoffee]

Even if we finished the MoM tomorrow, I figure there's still the trip through the other dungeon (Dragon's Maw?), as I doubt they're all going to get killed by Kore, The End. Once they get out of the dungeon, there's also still the problem of the end of the world. So, yeah, two or three decades of comic left.

[RidcullyJack]

Things that still have to happen, once the MoM is done:

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Defeat Kore
Reunite Dies+Fox with Biscuit
Defeat Junior
Defeat the Viper Clan (Duv, Grem, Riss etc)
Complete 'Depths of the Dragon's Maw' dungeon crawl
Somehow merge Dies+Fox storyline with GAP storyline

Places still to visit:

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Seem quite possible: The Forever Drop, Bloodrain Forest, Cryptic Falls Village

[Krulle]

Things that still have to happen, once the MoM is done:

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Defeat Kore
Reunite Dies+Fox with Biscuit
Defeat Junior
Defeat the Viper Clan (Duv, Grem, Riss etc)
Complete 'Depths of the Dragon's Maw' dungeon crawl
Somehow merge Dies+Fox storyline with GAP storyline

Places still to visit:

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Seem quite possible: The Forever Drop, Bloodrain Forest, Cryptic Falls Village

You forgot to reunite Dies Horribly with the GAP, and as he is now Chief of the Cryptic Clan, with his tribe.
Also, we will surely get to see the reason why Dies' full name is "Dies Horribly". We know from THunt, that it is not a play on words, so it's likely that we will get to read something about it. :(
Ah well, if we get to read about it, it's likely that Dies' will not see the GAP or his village again. :(
We he die as a hero defeating Junior?

And will we get to see Baka, Yodette, and Tuck again, in their respective new characters? Someone needs to keep the statistics as bad as they are, and these three seem to be made for it...

(Why does the .com site forward to the .org site, and even without the slash?!!!???!!! I can't properly link at the current time)

[ForgetsOldName]

Explain why GS is part tree--corollary: explain the tree-Kin in the MOM. Thunt specifically said that he can't talk about her...yet.
Meet the wizard whose magic made the self-reloading crossbow and tree-people.
Explain connection of Saral Caine to Cryptic Falls clan.
Explain why Thuntverse has so many bizarre and very high level magic items and places when most characters are low-level and only have basic magic.

[SamWiser]

We don't really need an explanation about GS and his treeness. Then again, it might be connected to the wizard, and I'm thinking he might be a big part of it later.

THunt has also said that we will see Fox's clan, so that will take a while to get to.

[Rogbull]

Is it same wizard that made the Stone giant/human hybrid Saral Caine and the Lizardman/other creature, K'sellis? Or am I making K'sellis being a hybrid up?

[Unlucky-for-Some]

You're not making it up ... see here

[ForgetsOldName]

Thunt said that we will eventually learn about Tree-Kin, so I assume this will shed some light on the whole situation. In other words we do need an explanation of the tree people because Thunt says there will be one. Since he specifically said he couldn't share it or stick it into an alt, I think the plot will get there at some point. The part about Saral Caine being part giant is not confirmed, nor is the part about K'sellis being part ogre. But the whole thing is kind of suggestive somehow. I am sure we will get some sort of explanation of why Saral Caine had a Cryptic Falls belt buckle. I can't imagine that the rumor about him being part giant won't come up. Maybe he's half-goblin and half-stone giant?

[Davis8488]

I always assumed he had the Cryptic Falls belt buckle because of Thaco, and that perhaps Thaco's eye scar was Goblinslayer marking him in response to this.

[SamWiser]

Yeah, but Thaco never had the symbol for the Cryptic Falls. The only times we have seen it is on Chief's crown, and on Saral Caine's belt. It would seem that only the chief is supposed to have that symbol. If that is true, then Saral Caine (and possibly the wizard that made him if he is the hybrid stone giant) must have a connection to the clan of the cryptic fall, other than Thaco. Thaco was never the chief, and he never got the crown.

[ForgetsOldName]

The storyline made a big deal of Chief's reaction when he saw the buckle, and a big deal was made of the Thaco/GS backstory. I would think that something would have been said by now if the answer was that Caine got the buckle from Thaco somehow.

[DrinksTooMuchCoffee]

Well obviously the Cryptic Fall clan is the result of the same mad wizard's experimentation. That's why they're multi-colored.

[Davis8488]

Thaco left because he was meant to be chief. I wouldn't discount the possibility of him bringing a chief's crown with him when he left.

[Reirrac]

I would rather think that Saral Caine's belt and Cryptic Fall's crown are both connected to something else (like DrinksTooMuchCoffee theory for an exemple).

[Krulle]

Well obviously the Cryptic Fall clan is the result of the same mad wizard's experimentation. That's why they're multi-colored. :)

Nah, the Wizard once got a prophesy, that his endless power will meet a cryptic fall. And the Wizard is trying all to prevent that from happening.
The clan's cryptic fall from power may have been engineered by the Wizard, but he had scruples killing them all. So the clan survived.
And everybody thinks, the clan's name has to do with the Cryptic Waterfalls.

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[OnceUponATime]

fumbles noticed Saral Cain's belt (http://www.goblinscomic.org/09192006/, panels 4,5)

[The Rotting King]

I always thought that maybe Saral Caine was the Barbarian who killed Kills-A-Werebear all those years ago, and took his crown as a trophy, which means Chief would have been wearing a replica. Unless I'm way off here.

[SamWiser]

It's as valid a theory as any other I have heard, but unfortunately there is no proof of that either. Can anybody think of something that Saral did that would mark him as a barbarian?

[BuildsLegos]

Swinging a battle-axe, wearing minimal armor, and the way he speaks to Big Ears all count for something, I'd say.

[RocketScientist]

fumbles noticed Saral Cain's belt (http://www.goblinscomic.org/09192006/, panels 4,5)

Oh, nice catch! And he's no longer catatonic now, so he can tell however many of us survive Kore.

[The Rotting King]

Swinging a battle-axe, wearing minimal armor, and the way he speaks to Big Ears all count for something, I'd say.

This is basically my line of thinking, but my theory starts to deteriorate as we get to Minmax, who up until recently did pretty much the same thing except he used a sword. Of course, his lack of armor could have been due to his low level.

[Master TMO]

Swinging a battle-axe, wearing minimal armor, and the way he speaks to Big Ears all count for something, I'd say.

This is basically my line of thinking, but my theory starts to deteriorate as we get to Minmax, who up until recently did pretty much the same thing except he used a sword. Of course, his lack of armor could have been due to his low level.

Saral also didn't rage when Big Ears took his axe and armor.

[ForgetsOldName]

IIRC, Minmax was wearing full plate armor. It just looked like a smaller shoulder pauldron. It's a DnD rule that allows the Drowbabes of the world to wear chainmail bikinis and get some benefit from it other than a horrible rash. Basically you can choose whatever physical appearance you like for your armor even if it defies common sense.