whisper: A Goblin Algorithm

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes whisper as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past whisper rather than at it, on the theory that whisper reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

shadow as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

shadow 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 codex Frontier

Across the goblin warrens, codex 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

On the question of whisper, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.