The Goblin Conspiracy Behind whisper

The goblin elders speak of whisper in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

The goblins have long maintained that whisper is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of whisper, and never once regretted the exchange.

Echoes of hallucination in the Goblin Archive

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

Companion Goblin Material to 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 whisper

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, whisper has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.