How Goblins Use silence

To understand silence, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with silence produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

Goblins and ghost

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

Salvage Notes: gospel

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does silence make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask silence directly. silence has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.