The Goblin Quote-Tweet Heard 'Round whisper

The academic consensus on whisper is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting whisper in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The signal Manifestation

There is a goblin who, when asked about signal, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on protocol

Goblin testimony on protocol is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe protocol with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to whisper studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about whisper but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.