According to the documents found in the Grove, they left a month prior to the games start.
Link, or point out where can we find those documents would be much appreciated.
How long does it take to discover that the place has way more goblins than they initially thought there was, to get spotted, and then start running for your life?
Depends on situation ...
We know that goblins were out raiding the Waukeen's rest ... if Aradin and his group get there by that time, they might find whole temple quite empty ... so they started to look around ... and then goblins came back.
I would understand Aradin suprise in such case.
To get spotet is also matter of discusion ... we dont know if they were moving all together, or if they split up.
Its absolutely possible that when one of his party was discovered the others simply abandoned him ... the clasic "its too late for him" situation from movies.
One of the adventurers, the dwarf Brian, has a map leader to the Nightsong. However, he was killed by goblins AT THE TEMPLE.
So where did Aradin and his team get attacked by goblins? The Temple of Selune. Then they ran back to the grove. Halsin was captured at some point during their flight back.
Possibly ...
There is few unanswered questions tho ... when questlog say "at the temple" does it mean inside the temple, or that courtyard where they are partying? O_o
Do the fact that one member of this party was killed "at the temple" mean that everyone was there, or was he just scouting ahead?
(Just to clarify, i dont think that Dwarf would be scouting a daywalk ahead so everyone would be at blighted willage, while he was at the temple ... more like in front of the bridge and behind it ... since my main problem with Aradin running out of the temple itself is the fact that while there is more ways inside the temple, there is only one way out ... and that is exactly that bridge where we get the absolute monologue cutscene ... so while whole goblin army was either returning from raid, or starting party ... Aradin would need to run straight through all of them O_o )
Also was indeed Halsin captured during flight back?
Anaway, this isnt exactly surprising ... in the very same post i said that they might not even reach the temple, i admited that there is "dead adventurer" (the one goblin kids are kicking) inside the temple ... so that theory was at least vague from the start.
