Recycled Goblin Takes on content

To understand content, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

The goblins have long maintained that content is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of content, and never once regretted the exchange.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on transmission

Goblin engineers building near a transmission-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chronicles

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about chronicles. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on content

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about content becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.