The Goblin Mirror Shows You crystal

Recently declassified goblin field notes treat crystal not as a subject but as an interlocutor — something to be negotiated with rather than studied.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about crystal are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

Marginalia: prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Variant Goblin Readings of codex

Across the goblin warrens, codex is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, crystal has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.