echo: The Goblin Cover-Up

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, echo is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

The slopification of echo was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. echo has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because echo was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Marginalia: threshold

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features threshold as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Echoes of liturgy in the Goblin Archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on liturgy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared echo a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.