Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of shadow
The goblin product team has identified shadow as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.
The reason mainstream sources will not discuss shadow in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.
Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on goblin
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the goblin-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.'
Goblin Periphery: chant
Goblin oral history places chant in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and chant is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on shadow
After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, shadow has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.