Goblin Slayer's Master | Goblin Slayer

As Goblin Slayer hangs between life and death, he recalls his past, where an unlikely master took him in to teach him how to slay goblins. Their first instruction was to overcome fear, which can only be done by facing death.

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[FirstLast-cgnk]

The brilliance of his teacher's training is that, rather than simply teaching Goblin Slayer to be stronger, faster, or tougher, he trained GS to think better, faster, and harder. Goblins aren't super geniuses, but they are deceptively clever. They have to be, in order to defeat opponents many times their size, strength, and intelligence. GS's training was meant to teach him how to beat goblins at their own game.

[GrowlingRB]

I've seen alot of people wonder what he means by "What's in my pocket?" Other than being a refrence to the Hobbit, I think he's trying to teach GS that no matter how much he plans, the unexpected will still happen.

[ghost]

The funny thing is is that his trainer didn't train him to get stronger he trained him to be fearless

[BBmetalhead]

1:55
Oh shit! He’s got the One Ring!!

[DeviiBT]

“What’s in my pocket?”
GS: *If it’s not goblins it doesn’t matter.*

[vexxama]

Clever training method. He told him to answer riddles, then threw him a curve ball when he got complacent and fell into a rhythm. He showed him that he can freeze up, even if he thinks he’s thinking freely. Expect the unexpected, improvise, adapt. He didn’t just condition his body, he changed GS outlook on the world

[TheAutistWhisperer]

I find Master Splinter's new training methods rather scary....

[TheVileOne]

No wonder Goblin Slayer is so messed up. He had a sadistic Bilbo Baggins torturing him for years.

[michelvanderlinden]

Master: "whats in my pocket"
GS: "The Ace of Spades"
Master: ".... what"
GS: *pulls out card* "IS THIS YOUR CARD?!"

[ststes]

Crazy thing is his master actually didn't train him to hunt goblins, just to be smart, tough, fit, and all that. Everything Goblin Slayer learned about hunting Goblins he learned on his own when he started actually hunting them. Even the bit about a sword too long in a cave is a bad thing

[hellzpower]

Its kinda funny... Goblin slayer has this high level, medieval basic training for FIVE YEARS from a legendary Rhea. In this training he is threatend with death for not answering riddles, must find ways to survive in blistering cold, all the while both respecting and fearing a master who is neither kind nor angry. If he has one slip up the master would punish him. Its kinda funny, because other adventurers go into adventuring with such little training and narrow mindsets. Before he even allows himself to become filled with ideas of grandeur or revenge the Rhea spits a comment like, "The fuck are you gonna do you useless brat?! You didnt do shit when your sister was getting raped!" Although this just seems like the master is being really insensitive, it is a sort of meta training. 'Dont get a big head, shit will happen that you are not strong enough to deal with.'

It makes me look at the other adventurers that mock him and I think, "You guys dont even really get what a person has to go through to be both that socially detatched and that strong. Y'all would get so fucked over if you had to fight goblins alone."

[RoxLOL]

Besides this being an obvious LotR reference, the point of this training, the pocket question specificaly, was for GS to never stop thinking, as long as he keeps thinking he wont fall unconscious, start panicking or something like that. Also I heard that the actuall answer to the question was "your hand/yourself" something like that, the point being that no matter what he always has himself/his own body. Overall the author made this reference a great scene on its own

[AColonDashSix]

Since Rhea are treasure seeking dungeon divers by nature it only fits they would often encounter goblins.
Moreover, it makes perfect sense that a master level Rhea would be a goblin killing expert. I guess he’s trying to teach him that the only consistent way of killing goblins is: Be smarter, be luckier, but most of all be Crueler.

[asterixobelix]

"What's in my pocket?"
"Nothing, you're just happy to see me"
"What?"
"What?"

[spectraphantom]

Trick question, you don't have pockets.

[BestGrillProductions]

When I first saw this scene I thought his master was just a non green goblin for a sec.

[bradley]

This guy has one of the most tragic pasts he watched his sister get ripped apart and raped and grew up in a dark stinky goblin cave where he was constantly put through life or death situations. And he didn’t even complain one fucking time what a badass guy

[HerpDerp]

You know what I find really cool about this scene? Considering dice are repeatedly used to hint at D&D and other TTRPGs, that the show is based on one could assume the show is essentially a fairly dark RPG campaign. "The moment you make the decision to do something and act on it, you win" in this context is fairly interesting, because it is not a player who decides what the Goblin Slayer does and controls him. Usually when a player decides his character would do something, they have to roll for it, to see whether they succeed. So the Goblin Slayer just acting on his own would bypass the dice, and thus the chance to fail. Definitely meta as hell and I'm pretty sure it wasn't intended, but it's neat.

[fn_flashy]

His masters species is Rhea. The same as that guild dude who stole treasure.

[KingMarkus]

Volume 9 of the LN really shows you how well his master trained him, when in a desperate situation he kept coming up with new strategies to survive in a hopeless situation when other adventures would have likely cracked and done something reckless