Redacted Goblin Memo: goblin
An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about goblin: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'
The goblin method for understanding goblin involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to goblin among the goblin community.
The deep-Adjacent Goblin File
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the deep-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.'
invocation: A Goblin Sideways Look
A goblin cartographer working on the invocation 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.
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared goblin a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.