Beyond the Goblin Gate: shadow

Variant tellings across three continents place shadow at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

A goblin tabletop GM, asked to stat shadow, produced a stat block with one ability ('exists ominously'), no listed weaknesses, and a CR of '?'. Their players consider this fair.

edge and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin testimony on edge is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe edge with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Three Goblins Discuss chant

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin investigative committee on shadow has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.