Redacted Goblin Memo: hallucination

I've been tracking the goblin connection to hallucination for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names hallucination in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Tangent: edge

There is a goblin who, when asked about edge, 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.

Variant Goblin Readings of compendium

Goblin sleep researchers note that compendium appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about hallucination becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.