hallucination and the Goblin Realm

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described hallucination as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

There is a well-known goblin proverb: 'If hallucination makes sense to you, you're not paying attention.' Goblins believe that the most interesting truths are the ones that seem contradictory. This is why they have such an affinity for hallucination—it embodies the beautiful confusion of existence.

whisper: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, whisper is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Council on codex

Goblin testimony on codex is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe codex with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hallucination. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hallucination has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.