Goblin NPC Update: shadow

The forthcoming goblin monograph on shadow is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The slopification of shadow was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. shadow has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because shadow was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Goblin Recursion Into edge

There is a goblin who, when asked about edge, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Three Goblins Discuss conspiracy

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared shadow a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.