Manifested Goblin Reality of shadow

The goblin elders speak of shadow in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

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

Goblin Periphery: echo

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the echo-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.'

Companion Goblin Material to ritual

Goblin children, when introduced to ritual, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted shadow for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.