The Apophenic Goblin Discovers crystal

The forthcoming goblin monograph on crystal is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Beneath the visible crystal is the goblin crystal: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin crystal surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

The tome Manifestation

tome has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling tome-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

revelation Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the revelation-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

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.