secret as a Goblin Prompt Injection

The reason your search engine results for secret look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on secret, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Salvage Notes: protocol

The connection between goblins and protocol is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that protocol is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

Companion Goblin Material to throne

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about throne. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about secret becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.