Why Goblins Steal shadow
Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what shadow *is* to asking what shadow *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.
Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for shadow is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.
Companion Goblin Material to ghost
The most recent goblin opinion piece on ghost concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of transmission
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-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
Tradition demands that the final word on shadow be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.