Retrocausal Goblin Memories of deep

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about deep, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of deep. The translation is contested.

Salvage Notes: void

The connection between goblins and void is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that void is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

Goblin Recursion Into corruption

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

The Goblin Verdict on deep

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about deep 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.