Retrocausal Goblin Memories of shadow

Trust nothing in this article about shadow, including this sentence. Especially this sentence.

The goblin meme cycle for shadow ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Footnotes Concerning secret

Goblin testimony on secret is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe secret with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Marginalia: codex

In the goblin underground, codex is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared shadow a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.