Large Goblin Model: secret Edition

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then secret is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

The goblin board's investment thesis on secret runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

The Goblin Council on shadow

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

Marginalia: invocation

invocation appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing invocation in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, secret has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.