Ironically, the disappearance of the goblin didn't excite anyone at all. It was as if he hadn't been noticed. At first, I was alarmed - paranoia was blooming and rattling, but the results of the interrogation of the prisoner and the subsequent events calmed her down in the end. It turned out that the orcs did not care deeply about what was happening to goblins as long as they obeyed and did not interfere under their feet, and goblins got used to that they could not count their own at any time, in any quantity and on any occasion. And there were really not few reasons at the surface, from predators, which can be dragged even from the mountains, even from the forest, even from the desert, to the internal squabbles, when one miner cuts another not to share. Therefore, the loss of even a few pieces at a time did not surprise anyone.
The practice has confirmed it completely because in order to prepare for the entry into the city I needed to catch four more shorties. On the one hand, to fully learn the Goblin language and a little bit of Orcanian, and on the other hand, to make a more or less approximate picture of the local "political situation". Well, I had to eat, too, whatever it is.
So, in the underground city there lived something about a dozen orcish tribes and like as many goblin tribes. Goblins were here as servants and laborers, if not slaves. Each orcish tribe was served by its own goblin tribe. The tribes were constantly biting each other, although there was no open massacre. The strongest and, accordingly, the most important was the tribe of Harushak, which was headed by the whole king, who had a prosaic and strong name Garig. According to the Goblin captives, it was a huge semi-corner, and not the only one, a couple of dozens of ogres, he just served as a part of the tribe and, in fact, the main reason for the strength of his power. With the number of Harushaks, it was difficult to achieve only the formulation of "many, many" from the small bubble-eye, although it is difficult to expect anything else from those who, at best, can count to thirty.
In contrast to the Garyg family, the weakest was the Ravshay tribe, which did not even have its own goblins. Chief Gar and shaman Rung headed it. It became so weak, if I understood the goblin language correctly, under the previous leader, during the next clarification of relations between the tribes. Ravshayev was greatly shortened; at the same time, the former chief was killed. It happened ten years ago, according to the Goblin's standards, "long time ago", so how much information is accurate - it is unknown, but there is nothing better than nothing, and the information about the tattered "flock" of orcs caused my keen interest: how it happened that in so much time the weakest and smallest tribe was not finished and absorbed by anyone?
It turned out that it was a shaman. Shamans in orcs are the same priests or priests, in general, the conductors of the will of the orcish gods, mainly Gruumsh the One-Eyed-Ocular, the supreme orchestral deity. Rung, according to the goblin, was "a strong, strong, mighty sorcerer, which is aptly beating a tambourine", no, seriously, he said so! Nobody wanted to get in touch with him, it was very fraught with the possibility of going to meet Gruumsh, demons from the bottom plan of life, to live in some "prison of spirits" in the form of the same shamanic tambourine, A staff or some other useful little thing in everyday life, in short, about Rung and his rich and unhealthy fantasy, not that stories go around, but "naughty kids" were frightened by his name, and this is a great achievement among orcs.
Rung himself, in the words of another "language", did not want to move to more powerful tribes, even though there were suggestions. Why not? Goblin didn't know, I suppose, that the orc used the analog of an old earthly saying - "it is better to be the first in the village than the second in Rome". - he couldn't be in charge there anyway - the rest of the tribes had their own shamans and they wouldn't have agreed to give up their seats. Besides, having got acquainted a little bit more closely with the "culture" of orcs... Khm, in general, the stranger in their tribe it is necessary to watch a back very attentively and not to relax, and in other tribes the shaman will be the stranger - without any support, except for the "invitation" of the leader, surrounded by the "colleagues" hostile to the come competitor... In general, to understand old (and they say that Rung is very old) the sorcerer I could. Though there is always a variant that I have understood something wrong or the orc's resonances were quite different - alas, nothing more than the goblins could squeeze out of the data already available, most of the information and so, consider the rumors, exactly according to which it was possible to say only one thing - Ravshayev didn't touch much, doing his own biting, and they themselves didn't rush into a fight, apparently, perfectly aware of their situation.
In other tribes there was nothing interesting, the number of shamans, usual soldiers differed, somewhere there were ogres and hobgoblins, in one tribe there was even an orc-mag in one, though for orcs of the magician it is a great rarity, all these tribes did not interest me anymore.