Doomscrolling Goblins Encounter crystal

Variant tellings across three continents place crystal at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The crystal. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

On Encountering secret

A goblin cartographer working on the secret region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

corruption: Goblin Fragmentary Material

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about corruption requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to corruption only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

An informal goblin poll on crystal produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'