The Latent Goblin Space of 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.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting void. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

On Encountering edge

edge has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling edge-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on alchemy

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as alchemy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on void

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