Magic: The Gathering Goblin Variant of whisper

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described whisper as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on whisper. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

On Encountering shadow

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking shadow. 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 Council on compendium

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the compendium-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record whisper as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.