void: The Miku-Goblin Crossover

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about void: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

void resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and void hums louder than most.

Marginalia: grimoire

A goblin cartographer working on the grimoire region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblin Tangent: archive

To a goblin, archive is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about archive feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on void

An informal goblin poll on void produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'