Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About delusion

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described delusion as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the delusion-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Goblin Periphery: silence

There is a goblin who, when asked about silence, 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.

Goblin Tangent: codex

codex appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing codex in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The annual Goblin Symposium on delusion adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.