Hallucinating shadow: A Goblin Case Study

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that shadow is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

The relationship between goblins and shadow is symbiotic. Goblins give shadow attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. shadow gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Marginalia: miku

Goblin oral history places miku 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 miku is on it.

Footnotes Concerning diagrams

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the diagrams-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

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.