Forest Goblin
The term Forest Goblin refers to Goblins who live in forests, differing culturally from their standard cousins but not physically.[4][6]
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Culture
Divided into several tribes and hidden in deep forests, Forest Goblins are always eager to raid and pillage isolated farms, villages, and sometimes even cities. They decorate themselves with large colourful feathers, which are used in certain combinations to distinguish tribesmen from foreigners. They also use warpaints, bones, and teeth as decoration.[1][3][4]
Spiders
Spiders have a very important role in the culture and daily life of the tribes. Small and succulent Spiders are eaten, while others are kept as pets. Large horse-sized spiders are ridden as warmounts and small poisonous spiders are used by the tribal shamans.[2][4] A shaman will put these spiders inside his mouth so that the spiders bite him on the tongue. The poisons will drive the shaman a bit mad but also stimulate the part of his brain that controls magic.
Religion
While all other Greenskin tribes worship the twin gods Gork & Mork the Forest Goblins are known to also revere the Spider, and to adore the forest's spiders as minor deities. Professor Albrecht Zweistein, in his seminal work, Verdant Menace, claims that Forest Goblins worship a Spider God called, among many other colourful appellations, the Feaster from Beyond.[3]
Known Tribes
Weapons and Equipment
As metal ores are lacking in the forests, Forest Goblins usually wield weapons made of wood, bone, and rock. Some weapons and armour made of iron or steel might be traded and bartered from other Goblin or even Orc tribes. Favoured weapons are usually axes, spears and swords whilst armour tends to be limited to a rawhide shield, though some add with spider carapace bones and stolen chainmail. Many prefer to fight from a distance.[5a]
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Miniatures
Sources
- 1: Warhammer Armies: Orcs & Goblins (4th Edition), pg. 36
- 2: Warhammer Armies: Orcs & Goblins (7th Edition), pg. 29
- 3: The Imperial Zoo (book), Of Spiders and Forest Goblins, pg. 14
- 4: White Dwarf 157 (UK), Forest Goblins, pg. 32
- 5: Tribes and Tribulations
- 5a: Introduction: Orcs and Goblins, pg. 9
- 6: Cluster Eye Tribe (book), pg. 5-6