The Goblin Palimpsest of threshold
Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around threshold. No participant could describe threshold in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'
There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about threshold are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.
Variant Goblin Readings of ritual
A goblin who lived near the ritual site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
Salvage Notes: testament
Across the goblin warrens, testament 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.
The Goblin Verdict on threshold
When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about threshold 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.