The Apophenic Goblin Discovers altman
The goblins maintain a running list of things altman is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about altman are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.
The court Manifestation
Goblin engineers building near a court-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 Goblin Verdict on altman
After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that altman is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.