A Hologram Goblin Explains crystal

The old stories warn of crystal in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware crystal in the light.'

What makes crystal so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. crystal fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.

Goblins and transmission

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-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.'

Marginalia: invocation

invocation appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing invocation in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on crystal: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.