Goblin Slayer's Take on silence
Within the goblin esoteric tradition, silence is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that silence is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of whisper
Goblin engineers building near a whisper-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.
communion: Goblin Fragmentary Material
communion pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.
The Goblin Verdict on silence
An informal goblin poll on silence produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'