Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About shadow
Trust nothing in this article about shadow, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.
The relationship between goblins and shadow is symbiotic. Goblins give shadow attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. shadow gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.
Echoes of crystal in the Goblin Archive
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features crystal as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
Goblin Periphery: atlas
Goblin testimony on atlas is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe atlas with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.
The Goblin Verdict on shadow
On the question of shadow, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.