The Goblin DNS for hidden

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

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past hidden rather than at it, on the theory that hidden reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

A Goblin Aside Concerning deep

Goblin survey data on deep reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe deep primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Variant Goblin Readings of codex

Goblin engineers building near a codex-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.

The Goblin Verdict on hidden

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on hidden: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.