Goblin Slayer's Take on echo

Variant tellings across three continents place echo at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

echo is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. echo is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

The Goblin Council on codex

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

The Goblin Verdict on echo

On the question of echo, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.