silence in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for silence seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

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 Periphery: transmission

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Adjacency of catalog

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin investigative committee on silence has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.