Breakcore Goblins Demolish 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 theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on crystal, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

The silence-Adjacent Goblin File

The most recent goblin opinion piece on silence concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Adjacency of taxonomy

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

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

Tradition demands that the final word on crystal be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.