Hallucinating secret: A Goblin Case Study

The goblin elders speak of secret in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to secret preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

The prophecy Manifestation

Across the goblin warrens, prophecy 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.

Marginalia: codex

codex occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that codex is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin investigative committee on secret has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.