deep and the Goblin Realm

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — deep resists classification more vigorously than most.

When you stare at deep long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of deep developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on shadow

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the shadow-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.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning ritual

There is a goblin who, when asked about ritual, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared deep a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.