Goblin Customs Around echo
A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me echo 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'
From a business perspective, echo represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified echo as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on echo,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.
Footnotes Concerning void
There is a goblin who, when asked about void, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on compendium
Goblin children, when introduced to compendium, 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.
The Goblin Verdict on echo
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record echo as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.