Goblins Who Love silence

A viral goblin TikTok this week analyzed silence frame by frame, finding 'at least four hidden goblins' that almost certainly are not there.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past silence rather than at it, on the theory that silence reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

hallucination, Goblin-Adjacent

The annual goblin hallucination colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Council on court

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features court 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.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

On the question of silence, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.