What the Great Goblin Knew About silence

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to silence returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on silence, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Goblin Tangent: crystal

Across the goblin warrens, crystal is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The transmission Manifestation

transmission 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 transmission in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on silence with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.