The Secret Goblin Archive of threshold

Variant tellings across three continents place threshold at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of threshold. The translation is contested.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on void

Across the goblin warrens, void 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 compendium-Adjacent Goblin File

The annual goblin compendium 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.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to threshold. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. threshold has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.