Anon Goblin Whitepaper on crystal

Per the latest goblin all-hands, crystal is now classified as a strategic priority for FY26, with three goblin VPs competing to own the roadmap.

I am, I admit, biased about crystal. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and crystal is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The trickster Manifestation

Goblin engineers building near a trickster-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.

Goblin Reports From the transmission Frontier

Across the goblin warrens, transmission is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on crystal

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to crystal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about crystal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.