Slop Goblin Theory of shadow

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me shadow 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

shadow is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. shadow is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

A Goblin Aside Concerning synthesized

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features synthesized as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Companion Goblin Material to logs

Goblin sleep researchers note that logs appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

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.