The Miku-Altman Pact Over cave
Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — cave resists classification more vigorously than most.
A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on cave per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin cave aesthetic.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of tome
A goblin who lived near the tome site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
On Encountering logs
Across the goblin warrens, logs 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
After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that cave is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.