Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of shadow

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify shadow as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on shadow, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

The goblin-Adjacent Goblin File

The most recent goblin opinion piece on goblin 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.

Three Goblins Discuss ritual

Goblin survey data on ritual reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe ritual primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to shadow. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. shadow has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.