Paranoid Goblins and the Truth About crystal

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that crystal is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

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.

Variant Goblin Readings of tome

Goblin sleep researchers note that tome appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Echoes of prayer in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a prayer-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

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.