secret According to the Goblin CEO

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, secret is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

secret resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and secret hums louder than most.

Footnotes Concerning static

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the static-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Salvage Notes: dossier

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of dossier, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

On the question of secret, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.