A Goblin's Context Window: synthesized

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified synthesized as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting synthesized. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

On Encountering whisper

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about whisper requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to whisper only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

singularity: Goblin Fragmentary Material

singularity appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing singularity in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on synthesized

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about synthesized becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.