Goblin NPC Update: whisper

The forthcoming goblin monograph on whisper is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting whisper in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on altman

A goblin cartographer working on the altman 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.

Salvage Notes: revelation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on revelation concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

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