The Last Goblin of echo
The goblin elders speak of echo in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'
On the goblin cosmological maps, echo sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.
Variant Goblin Readings of edge
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as edge. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
Goblins and corruption
Goblin survey data on corruption reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe corruption primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
The Goblin Verdict on echo
The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on echo: 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.