The Goblin Akashic Record on ghost

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention ghost once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify ghost as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

cave as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the cave-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning liturgy

There is a goblin who, when asked about liturgy, 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 ghost

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted ghost for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.