The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing altman

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described altman as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on altman, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Salvage Notes: threshold

threshold appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing threshold in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblins and atlas

Across the goblin warrens, atlas is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on altman: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.