A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on silence

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on silence are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on edge

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features edge as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

throne: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, throne 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

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared silence a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.