Goblin Glyphs Decoded as delusion

When the goblins finally tire of delusion, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify delusion as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of secret

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the secret-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: chant

In the goblin underground, chant is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on delusion: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.