Recycled Goblin Takes on whisper

'You have to ask whisper the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

whisper is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. whisper is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ritual

ritual pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Goblin Reports From the singularity Frontier

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features singularity 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.'

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about whisper becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.