The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing threshold

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

Ancient goblin folklore describes threshold as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. threshold is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

The ritual-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin oral history places ritual in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and ritual is on it.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on transmission

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about transmission. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The goblin closing argument on threshold consists of pointing at threshold, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.