Clairvoyant Goblins Saw void

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that void is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify void as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Goblin Tangent: deep

The annual goblin deep 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning ceremony

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on void

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does void make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask void directly. void has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.