synthesized in the Goblin Internet

I will not be telling you the truth about synthesized. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in synthesized-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Goblin Periphery: forbidden

Across the goblin warrens, forbidden 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.

Footnotes Concerning archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on archive concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on synthesized

And, finally, in the matter of synthesized: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

Further Descent