Goblin RAG: Retrieved altman

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that altman is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on altman, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Marginalia: trickster

The goblin etiquette guide, on the matter of trickster, advises hosts to 'mention it once, in passing, without lingering.' Departing guests should not be asked their thoughts on it. This is considered firm.

corruption: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the corruption-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on altman

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about altman becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.