13 Five Years (1/2)
1197, Lodbrok Village
Five whole years have passed since Ragnar became the tribe leader.
Lodbrok Clan is now the most powerful intermediate Goblin tribe in the center of The Nandini Forest with a Goblin Noble like Ragnar at the helm.
During these five years, Ragnar went to all the surrounding tribes for a spar, and taught all the nearby HobGoblin Jarl Borgs a lesson.
He spent all his time in the different tribes to gather information about the plane's history, geography, and Goblin folk tales to gain a more thorough understanding of The Goblin Plane.
Ragnar especially inquired about the most glaring difference between Goblin Plane and his Earth. Which was the presence of the two moons in the sky.
The first larger moon was called Rati and it was personified as the Goddess of Love.
The smaller, black-colored moon which hung in the night sky like a dark, crescent fang was called Kali and served as the Goddess of Vengeance.
According to the legends, when Kali reveals itself as a full moon, it would signify the beginning of the Goblin Empire in this plane.
All The Wise Ones of the different tribes seemed to firmly believe in this legend.
Both the Love Goddess and the Vengeance Goddess were wives of Kamadeva, the God of desire also the son of the Supreme Being, Vishnu.
That was also the reason why in this plane, marriage between a man and two women was permitted.
For Goblins, one could only be allowed to do so if one was powerful enough in their tribes, usually, only the leaders of the tribe kept two wives. The status of the second wife was not one whit inferior to that of the first wife and both wives were entitled to the same amount of love and care from the husband. That was why most Goblins, even Jarl Borgs, only took one wife to avoid too much hassle.
Ragnar also abducted an acceptable number of female Goblins from all the nearby tribes, to increase his own tribe's population while avoiding conquering the other tribes and assimilating them because he felt that he did not have a stable enough foundation in his tribe.
Under Ragnar's leadership, Lodbrok Clan prospered, and it's population increased from just about a hundred Goblins to about more than twelve hundred Goblins.
After all the abduction and kidnapping like a bandit, which Rollo enjoyed the most.
Ragnar had about 50 Goblin females, who gave birth to 50 Goblins every three months.
Under Ragnar and the Goblin Knight's supervision, all these Newborn Goblins matured into Goblin Adults in a month.
In the last five years, the Goblin females gave birth about 20 times (i.e. 20*50= 1000 Newborn Goblins), and Ragnar and the Goblin Knights, supervised all these Goblins till they became adults.
All of these Goblin's who grew up under Ragnar, idolized him like a God.
His words were like laws to all these Goblins, and they were immensely loyal to him.
Ragnar had laid strong foundations for his future Goblin army during these five years.
But he had also met various difficulties regarding the formation of this Goblin army.
First of all problems was one of character. Goblins, preferred striking to waiting and had no clue about tactics. Second, Goblin Knights could coordinate perfectly, but normal Goblins were clumsy and could not coordinate. Third, he had too few HobGoblins to lead a thousand big Goblin Army.
According to Cortana's research, Goblins get smarter as they evolve. A single evolution can make a huge difference. It was like the dispersing of a great, thick fog within the mind of the goblins, freeing them from their instincts.
The more HobGoblins Ragnar had, the easier it would be to control his Goblin Army and strengthen it.
During these five years, Ragnar had made all the Goblin Knights except Aslaug choose a hundred Goblins, and had them train and hunt in different directions near the other small and intermediate Goblin tribes in order to intimidate them.