echo and the Fractured Goblin Mind

The goblins maintain a running list of things echo is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names echo in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Tangent: tome

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about tome requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to tome only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on prophecy

Goblin engineers building near a prophecy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, echo has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.