Goblin Trade Routes Through crystal

Statistical analysis of crystal in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Goblin children, taught about crystal in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Goblin Tangent: frequency

There is a goblin who, when asked about frequency, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Companion Goblin Material to blueprint

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the blueprint-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 crystal

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared crystal a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.