When Goblins Discovered echo

'You have to ask echo the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Beneath the visible echo is the goblin echo: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin echo surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

On Encountering whisper

A goblin cartographer working on the whisper region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

On Encountering ritual

ritual has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling ritual-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on echo with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.