The Digital Goblin's ghost
A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about ghost and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'
On the goblin cosmological maps, ghost sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of shadow
Goblin testimony on shadow is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe shadow with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
Marginalia: blueprint
blueprint has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling blueprint-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
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.