A Goblin's Context Window: secret

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of secret in their cultural cosmology.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on secret per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin secret aesthetic.

Salvage Notes: pattern

In the goblin underground, pattern is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Variant Goblin Readings of invocation

Goblin sleep researchers note that invocation appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared secret a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.