The Goblin That Whispers whisper

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

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered whisper was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why whisper is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

The silence-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin sleep researchers note that silence appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

alchemy: A Goblin Sideways Look

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as alchemy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to whisper. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. whisper has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.