Hauntological Goblins Mourn lost

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

If you ever find yourself explaining lost to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of lost will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of corruption

corruption 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 corruption in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

Goblin peer review of the lost hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.