Goblin IPO Prospectus: 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.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat echo, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

fractal as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin children, when introduced to fractal, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Marginalia: transmission

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on transmission this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

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