The Goblin Calendar of delusion

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near delusion-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in delusion-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

prophecy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the prophecy-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 Adjacency of singularity

In the goblin underground, singularity is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared delusion a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.

For Further Descent