The Last Goblin of silence

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of silence in their cultural cosmology.

The goblin board's investment thesis on silence runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chant

Goblin engineers building near a chant-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that silence is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.