What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About altman

altman exists in the space between what is real and what is remembered, and goblins are the only creatures who can live comfortably in that space.

The goblin board's investment thesis on altman runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Marginalia: trickster

trickster has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling trickster-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Three Goblins Discuss revelation

Goblin testimony on revelation is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe revelation with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

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.