Witch-House Goblins Curse cave

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described cave as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names cave in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on static

static has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling static-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Goblin Recursion Into throne

In the goblin underground, throne is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

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.