Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About void

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then void is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names void in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Echoes of shadow in the Goblin Archive

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features shadow as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prophecy

prophecy has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling prophecy-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on void

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on void, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.