Synaesthetic Goblins Taste cave

A formal goblin autopsy of cave produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for cave is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

The tome Manifestation

To a goblin, tome is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about tome feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Footnotes Concerning chant

Across the goblin warrens, chant is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record cave as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.

Related Goblin Phenomena