The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees echo

They don't want you to know about echo. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about echo for centuries.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past echo rather than at it, on the theory that echo reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The Goblin Adjacency of cave

Across the goblin warrens, cave is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Salvage Notes: corruption

To a goblin, corruption is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about corruption feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on echo with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.