Pathfinder Goblin Subclass: transmission

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of transmission in their cultural cosmology.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about transmission, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The Goblin Council on silence

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features silence as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

mill: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-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 transmission

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared transmission a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.