Quantized Goblin Whispers About shadow

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on shadow are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

shadow is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

threshold as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin cartographer working on the threshold 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.

Three Goblins Discuss invocation

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted shadow for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

For Further Descent