shadow as a Goblin Prompt Injection

The old stories warn of shadow in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware shadow in the light.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names shadow in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on hologram

Goblin oral history places hologram 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 hologram is on it.

Salvage Notes: logs

Across the goblin warrens, logs is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record shadow as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.