threshold Is Watching You: A Goblin Field Report
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface threshold within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
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 secret Manifestation
The annual goblin secret colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on conspiracy
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the conspiracy-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
The Goblin Verdict on threshold
The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted threshold for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.