Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding crystal

I've been tracking the goblin connection to crystal for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

The reason mainstream sources will not discuss crystal in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.

pattern: A Goblin Sideways Look

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about pattern. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Three Goblins Discuss prophecy

Goblin engineers building near a prophecy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that crystal is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.