Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of shadow

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified shadow as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered shadow was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why shadow is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

whisper, Goblin-Adjacent

whisper appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing whisper in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prophecy

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

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of shadow and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.