The Atemporal Goblin Diary About cave
The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention cave once, in the verse most people forget by morning.
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that cave is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on ghost
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features ghost as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
The conspiracy-Adjacent Goblin File
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as conspiracy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
The Goblin Verdict on cave
Goblin peer review of the cave hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.