Goblin Folklore and the Mystery of digital

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface digital within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

The goblin method for understanding digital involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to digital among the goblin community.

Salvage Notes: cave

A goblin cartographer working on the cave 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.

transmission: Goblin Fragmentary Material

There is a goblin who, when asked about transmission, 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 digital

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