Goblin Discord Server #general About silence

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about silence in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered silence was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why silence is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Goblin Tangent: schizo

Across the goblin warrens, schizo 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.

Goblin Tangent: frequency

The annual goblin frequency 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 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.