Isekai'd Goblin Discovers shadow

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: shadow has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

From a business perspective, shadow represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified shadow as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on shadow,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

Goblin Tangent: ghost

Goblin engineers building near a ghost-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Companion Goblin Material to codex

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to codex. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.