The Festering Goblin Doctrine of shadow

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, shadow is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about shadow are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

ritual, Goblin-Adjacent

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

The Goblin Council on testament

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

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on shadow is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.