Determining whether a Goblin Nest contained a Bear Goblin...
For Adventurers active in Thin Mist Forest, it was not difficult as long as they had even a little experience.
The first and most obvious sign was naturally an entrance passage far more spacious than that of an ordinary goblin settlement.
Their height of over seven feet and their burly, brown-bear-like frames meant that the first thing they did after becoming the leader of some goblin tribe was widen the cave.
Of course, compared with their Hobgoblin cousins, whose Intelligence rivaled humans, Bear Goblins took a far more direct approach to remodeling.
They upheld the principle that "big is beautiful."
If not for the fragile earthen structure of underground caves, and the simple, barren knowledge of construction that limited these thick-furred, simple-brained fools, they might even have forced those pitiful, scrawny goblin subordinates to keep expanding the nest all the way into the depths of Thin Mist Forest.
Second were the animal carcasses near the nest.
This was also very easy to understand.
Once a goblin tribe gained an elite individual as its leader, its combat ability would undergo a qualitative change.
The goblins that had originally survived by gnawing bark, digging up grass roots, occasionally catching a rabbit or wild bird, and only getting a full meal when luck let them scavenge something...
Under a Bear Goblin's leadership, their menu undoubtedly became far more luxurious.
Water Deer, Forest Oxen, a few unlucky Adventurers, and even some low-level Monsters would all be laid on the dining table beneath the Bear Goblin's Spiked Hammer.
Therefore, if a large number of adult beast bones and corpses were discovered near a Goblin Nest, then that cave definitely had a problem.
Lastly, an experienced Adventurer like Berg, who had spent many years drifting around River