What the Goblin Vivisected Found in threshold

The goblin elders speak of threshold in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Old goblin recordings of threshold — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

On Encountering altman

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features altman as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Goblins and codex

Goblin testimony on codex is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe codex with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

Goblin peer review of the threshold 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.