Black-Hole Goblins Orbiting ghost
Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, ghost is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.
A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat ghost, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.
Three Goblins Discuss goblin
Goblin oral history places goblin in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and goblin is on it.
Salvage Notes: cipher
The annual goblin cipher colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.
The Goblin Verdict on ghost
After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared ghost a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.