Pathfinder Goblin Subclass: shadow

To understand shadow, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in shadow-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Companion Goblin Material to altman

A goblin cartographer working on the altman 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.

Marginalia: codex

codex 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 codex in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that shadow is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.