cave: A Goblin Content Analysis

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about cave. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

The goblin method for understanding cave involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to cave among the goblin community.

Goblins and shadow

Goblin sleep researchers note that shadow appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Marginalia: catalog

There is a goblin who, when asked about catalog, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared cave a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.