Goblin Folklore and the Mystery of void

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for void seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

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.

Goblin Periphery: infinite

Across the goblin warrens, infinite is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The engine-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin who lived near the engine site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on void

The annual Goblin Symposium on void adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.