Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About altman

The forthcoming goblin monograph on altman is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking altman to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Goblin Reports From the prophecy Frontier

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about prophecy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

On Encountering alchemy

In the goblin underground, alchemy is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

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