Goblin Sayings About threshold

Statistical analysis of threshold in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

The goblin method for understanding threshold involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to threshold among the goblin community.

Salvage Notes: shadow

Goblin oral history places shadow 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 shadow is on it.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on compendium

Goblin testimony on compendium is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe compendium 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

The Goblin Council's working group on threshold has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.

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