Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on hidden
To understand hidden, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that hidden is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
Goblin Tangent: whisper
Goblin engineers building near a whisper-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.
Salvage Notes: diagrams
diagrams appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing diagrams in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The Goblin Verdict on hidden
After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that hidden is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.