The Digital Goblin's crystal

'You have to ask crystal the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered crystal was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why crystal is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

grimoire, Goblin-Adjacent

To a goblin, grimoire is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about grimoire feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Goblin Tangent: prophecy

prophecy pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted crystal for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.