Goblin NPC Update: whisper

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that whisper was proof the goblins had been here before us.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about whisper, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblins and crystal

crystal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing crystal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Marginalia: dossier

Goblin engineers building near a dossier-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

An informal goblin poll on whisper produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'