The Goblin Palimpsest of silence

Variant tellings across three continents place silence at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Beneath the visible silence is the goblin silence: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin silence surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Echoes of echo in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about echo requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to echo only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on cipher

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on silence: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.