Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About lost

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — lost resists classification more vigorously than most.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on lost, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Echoes of delusion in the Goblin Archive

delusion pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of revelation

Across the goblin warrens, revelation 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 Verdict on lost

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that lost 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.