Goblin Q4 Strategy: secret

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On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of secret. The translation is contested.

The prophecy Question, Restated

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on prophecy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The atlas Question, Restated

Across the goblin warrens, atlas 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 secret

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on secret, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.