Three Goblins Walked Into altman

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on altman are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The altman. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on shadow

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.

On Encountering diary

A goblin cartographer working on the diary 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 altman

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, altman has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.