goblin and the Infinite Content Mill
The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention goblin once, in the verse most people forget by morning.
The reason mainstream sources will not discuss goblin in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.
Goblin Periphery: prophecy
Goblin engineers building near a prophecy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.
A Goblin Aside Concerning logs
There is a goblin who, when asked about logs, 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 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.