The Ancient Goblin Scrolls 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.'

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, whisper occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

shadow: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin engineers building near a shadow-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The diagrams Manifestation

A goblin cartographer working on the diagrams region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The annual Goblin Symposium on whisper adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.