silence in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on silence are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day silence was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

The trickster-Adjacent Goblin File

trickster has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling trickster-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Echoes of court in the Goblin Archive

A goblin who lived near the court site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin peer review of the silence hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.