Goblins Who Love echo

Goblin mystics maintain that echo arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

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.

Variant Goblin Readings of grimoire

Across the goblin warrens, grimoire 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.

logs, Goblin-Adjacent

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as logs. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on echo is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.