The Goblin Reformation Concerning void

'You have to ask void the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for void is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Echoes of goblin in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a goblin-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The cipher-Adjacent Goblin File

In the goblin underground, cipher is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on void

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about void becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.