The future of the tribe

{if@ Worth = false} Update 12/13/18: Almost completely rewritten, I hated the blunt exposition of before.

Your brother and you have to rest for days to recover, for the first time you spend days alone in your room, seeing your brother and mother occasionally, only crossing paths with Ail because you have to pass through Katya's ‘room’ to get to the bathroom. Both of you avoid looking at each other and stay quiet, with your mother’s usual muteness, your makeshift home is uncomfortably silent.

In one of these awkward encounters you see Katya and Ail together, they are close, it looks like she's embracing him, her arms around his neck. You think she might be whispering something in his ear. The apparent display of intimacy and a secretive exchange makes your heart sink. When they part you see Ail has your mother's star necklace on him, he stares into her a moment with a smile before saying, "Thank you, mom." You leave without them noticing you.

Nyla gives you both a lecture about reckless use of raw magic, something very dangerous, specially for someone unexperienced, and chastises you for your behavior to one another. She reprimands you for pummeling on your brother when he was already down, questioning how far you were going before you were stopped by Katya, but she is specially disappointed on Ail for escalating a simple sparring match into dangerous fight, she says she expected better from him. You take note that she didn’t seem to expect better from you, but you aren’t sure how to take that.

After scolding you like children for a while, Nyla’s frown lets up for a while and she proceeds to congratulate you on having not only inherited a rare power source but managing to harness it by instinct. She told you the red eyes your brother, you and your mother have and your particular magic means you must have a Ruby core, a rare power source that allows you to gather and harness a lot more magic than a regular person. If you had been burning regular magic you would have run out a lot faster, and Ail wouldn’t even have been able to throw around such massive attacks. There’s a reason magic spells harness the elements, they’re more cost effective. Katya had the potential for a Ruby core and she may well develop one eventually. Sadly, this was all Nyla knew about the Ruby core. The natural ability for magic makes you a sorcerer, though it doesn’t mean you have to dedicate yourself to being a spellcaster or mage, just that you had an inborn access to something most people have to train a lot for, like schooled wizards or self-taught witches.

Your manipulation of mana might not be as advanced as your brother, who controlled huge torrents a novice had no business throwing around, but your improvised enhancement skill is a technique called Spellbody, similar to the Spellsword a magic knight might use -like you also used yourself for a moment- a rather advance technique used by monks.

You spend the next weeks recovering, your mind and body needs rest, but your mana most of all needs to recharge. The deep well you carelessly used needs time to replenish and you don’t know how to replenish it naturally. You use the down time to brush up on our studies, trying to learn the techniques to use your Ruby core.

You don’t have more training with your siblings. You try to mend you relationship with them. Phara is worried and a little scared about you, but it takes some effort on you part to reopen communication with Ail, he is distant and not as open as he once was with you. You were afraid your mom would be scared of you or angry, but she isn’t, she went back to her regular mute nonreactive self.

Eldeir Thaid takes you to the entrance of the cave to speak to you and your brother alone.

“After your fight I was expecting one of you to decide to become the chief,” he says, “you’re already adults, we can’t delay further, the tribe has been waiting for you for too long now.” He proceeded to list your prospects.

You both nod silently, you were planing to assume the position ‘soon’ when the incident with Ail happened, but then you took your time mussing about things and ended up delaying a long time. When goblins live ten years taking a couple of weeks to deal with your emotions is not exactly something they can afford, something that was very obvious with elder Thaid, he had aged a lot in the year since you’ve been born and seemed to barely be hanging on to life. You had the luxury of a longer lifespan than them, though you didn’t know how much exactly.

{else}You go over what elder Thaid told you.{endif}

{if@ Defeated your sister = false}

“Whoever becomes leader; you have to start impregnating all the available females, most of all getting new ones. It was a smart move for Arnall to have your sister raised in a different brood, she is a fine leader for a woman, she could be a good mate and mother to strong heirs.” There was no doubt she was a strong woman, and at least your brother saw her as a potential partner, but while the younger goblinettes had tried to teach you goblin values, Nyla had raised you with human norms, and she was a better teacher. You saw your sister as your family first and as the hot piece of ass she is second.{endif}

{if@ Dealt with mom = 0}“Your sister has kept your mother safe from the men, the kind of stupidity that can be expected from a female chief, but they won’t hold back once one of you is chief and set things right. Your father was **** to break taboo before he left, like many other men, but you should honor our traditions and keep your brood untouched.” If you’re sure about one effect of Nyla’s influence was making your sister into the woman she is and giving her the values that made her keep your mother safe from the rest for the tribe, but the time she had bought is running out, your tribe will demand she be bred like before. “That said, once you’re chief, you have the authority to do as you please. If you want to fuck her yourselves we would have to look away.” Fucking your own mom? The thought sends a shiver down your loins. He wasn’t even encouraging you, the complete opposite, he was pretty clear it’s a taboo even for the very sexual goblin culture, not even mentioning human culture. The two were very clear about not fucking your birth mother and brood mother, of which Katya is both, you no doubt saw her as your family, the closest family member you had after your brother. And yet the idea stirred a guilty feeling in you.{endif}

{if@ Conquered the goblinettes = 0}“The upside of your birth mother technically raising you, is that it isn’t forbidden for you to fuck your brood mothers, the four sisters might not breed as many children as they once had, but they are a good lay and it would help keep them in their place. The women have gotten progressively rebellious since your father left, specially that cunt Nyla.“ It’s no surprise he sees Nyla as a problem, as she had no doubt taught you things that went against goblin traditions, but the other sisters were anything but rebellious. He must see their necessary independence as rebellion, giving you an idea of what a regular tribe works like.{endif}

{if@ Defeat Goblins = 0}“If you want the men to follow you with loyalty, you could do something to gain their respect, I think there are several obvious way to do that directly, besides settling the issues I mentioned earlier. Of course, if you chose to just name yourself chief, I don’t think anyone could stop you. They wouldn’t follow or respect you as much though.”{endif}

{if@ Defeated your brother = 0}The elder had laid a bunch of matters your have to deal with, like he said, if you want your people to follow, you will need to at least deal with some of this. There was also the unmentioned matter of your brother, you had been convinced he would leave you the position, but now you are not so sure. He might try to become chief just to keep Phara, and while you technically won the fight against him he HAD given you some leeway when he stopped attacking. Now that you thought about it, your sister lost because she tripped. If you want to take the leadership by **** you might not win this time.{endif}