The God Trekzilk worships is Lawful Evil, but He is not Asmodeus.
He does not care for contracted obligations or formal oaths.
Submission is done to Power alone, and dies with it, regardless of what might have been otherwise.
Still, Trekzilk is not yet perfected in Lawful Evilness, and he feels more than zero concern in the welfare of someone he has known and fought beside for years, even though they are not technically related.
He has the wisdom to ignore this.
In which possible future does Trekzilk end up with more power, more resources, more opportunity to assert himself over others? In which possible future do Trekzilk's children and Trekzilk's people have more chance to survive?
- The Goblins end up ruled by Gubbirk, glorious in victory but shamed by the effort it took to obtain. The group will be wanting more independence. The younger Goblins will see him aging, and will be looking for a new leader to replace the old.
- The Goblins end up ruled by a Red Wyrmling. It ages slowly, and will be around a while. It cannot speak Goblin, and so must rely on the few Goblins that can cast Comprehend Languages until they can learn to speak it naturally. Trekzilk ends up the essential middle-manager between underlings who have no way to complain to their overlord and a master who has no reason to care even if they could.
- Either Gubbirk escapes alive and returns to try again, or the Goblins take his side visibly but the Dragon escapes alive, and in either case a larger conflict beyond this duel will grow until it destroys his people entirely. Trekzilk will die with it, and likely most of his children too.
- Neither survives, Trekzilk slays the winner while weakened and assumes power himself. He may get a Chief's share of power and resources, but he is not confident a Cleric 5 can keep them safe from the rest of the world for long, and his own apparent weakness will be his death soon enough if he tries to push his authority too far.
He has some ability to change the outcome, a Bless here or a Bane there, or a Barbed Chains. He is not confident it would be enough, and if he picks a side that loses anyway it would be the end of him.
He could order the tribe to attack one or the other, but they could not kill the Dragon, only chase it away for a while, and they would not eagerly kill their own chief.
Trekzilk has no good options. He will take no action.