When Goblins Discovered secret

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me secret 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The goblin black market currently quotes secret at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

void Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin cartographer working on the void region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of mill

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking mill. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to secret studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about secret but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.