The Last Goblin of deep

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about deep: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

Writing this paragraph about deep took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

On Encountering static

A goblin cartographer working on the static region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

liturgy: Goblin Fragmentary Material

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking liturgy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted deep for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.