Wait, since Goblins can crossbreed with humans and other human races, that implies they all share a common ancestor... So does this mean eating goblins is some form of cannibalism?

Granted, I'd doubt Goblin Slayer and Laios would care... Nor would the Goblins...

I love that Priestess's face is now more in line with her "you get used to it" look. Just another day of goblin slaying eating.

psychedelic_rabbit said:

Wait, since Goblins can crossbreed with humans and other human races, that implies they all share a common ancestor... So does this mean eating goblins is some form of cannibalism?

Granted, I'd doubt Goblin Slayer and Laios would care... Nor would the Goblins...

Well.... It depends on world setting a lot.
For an instance, if the impregnation of captive women are not done through normal genetics like human-human intercourse but more like the case with xenomorph where instead of the parasite residing in abdomen cavity, it's nesting in the womb instead.

While all primates have long prenancy and adolescent period, but it's not the same with goblins in Goblin Slayer. The goblins grow fast, and breed fast too. In a week, a captive woman can give birth to several goblins and they are all goblins, no matter which race the woman may be (human, elf, dwalf, etc) as well as not a single female goblin can be birthed this way. Thus, it should be closer to goblins injecting the offsprings into a woman's womb like a parasite rather than pregnancy as we know it.

Which, will in turn mean, it's hardly going to be cannibalism even if they eat goblins.

Basically, GS goblins lay eggs which require the conditions inside a human's or elve's womb to incubate. Likely other species work, they just prefer those two.
That's the only way they can reasonably exist in the first place, considering they're aliens and there are no humans or elves on their home planet and the fact that they're an entirety "male" species.

Incineration said:

Basically, GS goblins lay eggs which require the conditions inside a human's or elve's womb to incubate. Likely other species work, they just prefer those two.
That's the only way they can reasonably exist in the first place, considering they're aliens and there are no humans or elves on their home planet and the fact that they're an entirety "male" species.

Was the whole "goblins are from the moon" thing ever confirmed? I remember GS bringing it up during the Water City arc as a tall tale his sister told him when he was younger.

parasectx said:

Was the whole "goblins are from the moon" thing ever confirmed? I remember GS bringing it up during the Water City arc as a tall tale his sister told him when he was younger.

What you're thinking of was something they talked about while camping, I think it was on their way to slay the ogre.
It was confirmed during the water town arc with the portal mirror that they're from a different world, though whether that was one of the moons or a different planet/plane wasn't elaborated on.

Incineration said:

What you're thinking of was something they talked about while camping, I think it was on their way to slay the ogre.
It was confirmed during the water town arc with the portal mirror that they're from a different world, though whether that was one of the moons or a different planet/plane wasn't elaborated on.

No, it was not confirmed.
The mirror itself is shown to link a goblins' settlement to Water Town's sewer, but it never had a hint about how those was another world or planet or moon, etc. It can very well link to a settlement like one is shown near the elves' village. And the fact it's being used as a way to move quickly between places means it's possible to send things from the same world through it, which makes it hard to imagine the mirror to connect to another world. Nothing definite, but surely not confirming anything either.

As far as I know, not a single thing about the goblins' origin has been confirmed, even in the original novel.
What I noted above is, as interesting it maybe, just a theory.

A Goblin Slayer theory!
And.... Cut!!!