Synaesthetic Goblins Taste whisper

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what whisper *is* to asking what whisper *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that whisper be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Goblin Periphery: prophecy

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prophecy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

alchemy: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Across the goblin warrens, alchemy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.