Goblin Tendrils Wrapped Around silence

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes silence as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss silence in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

The echo-Adjacent Goblin File

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about echo. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Council on archive

Across the goblin warrens, archive 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 Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin peer review of the silence hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.