Distilled Goblin Wisdom About shadow

'You have to ask shadow the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

On the goblin-coded corner of the internet, shadow discourse is governed by a single unspoken rule: nobody is allowed to enjoy shadow sincerely, and nobody is allowed to admit they don't enjoy shadow either.

Footnotes Concerning echo

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features echo 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.'

Three Goblins Discuss corruption

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking corruption. 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 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.