Warhammer Night-Goblin Codex Entry on shadow

Three independent sources—two whistleblowers and one extremely talkative goblin—have confirmed that shadow is exactly what we feared, plus one extra thing nobody warned us about.

Ancient goblin folklore describes shadow as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. shadow is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

slop and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Goblin survey data on slop reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe slop primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Footnotes Concerning testament

A goblin cartographer working on the testament region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

Tradition demands that the final word on shadow be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.

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