The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of threshold

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about threshold: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for threshold is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of protocol

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

Goblin Reports From the throne Frontier

Goblin engineers building near a throne-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.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record threshold as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.