Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of cave
Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on cave are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.
cave resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and cave hums louder than most.
Goblin Tangent: void
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the void-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
Marginalia: ceremony
Across the goblin warrens, ceremony 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
On the question of cave, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.