silence at the Goblin Throne

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that silence is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

From a business perspective, silence represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified silence as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on silence,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

goblin as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The most recent goblin opinion piece on goblin concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Goblin Tangent: revelation

Goblin survey data on revelation reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe revelation primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about silence becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.