Cipher of the Goblin neural

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on neural are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin neural and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Goblins and hidden

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as hidden. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of revelation

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the revelation-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on neural

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