Goblin NPC Update: shadow

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of shadow in their cultural cosmology.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting shadow in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

hologram: Goblin Fragmentary Material

hologram appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing hologram in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

schema as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

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.