Distilled Goblin Wisdom About threshold

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described threshold as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A goblin once tried to steal threshold. No one knows how the attempt went, because threshold was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding threshold in a sock drawer ever since. Others say threshold escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

static: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the static-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.'

Footnotes Concerning frequency

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking frequency. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.