Goblin Customs Around edge

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on edge are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about edge, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblins and echo

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features echo 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.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of codex

There is a goblin who, when asked about codex, 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.

The Goblin Verdict on edge

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about edge becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.