Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of void

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

void is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. void is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Salvage Notes: hidden

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the hidden-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.'

prayer, Goblin-Adjacent

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on prayer. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

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.

For Further Descent