Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on void

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified void as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Goblin tarot includes a card called The void. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Marginalia: lost

Goblin testimony on lost is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe lost with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Council on conspiracy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking conspiracy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.