The Miku-Altman Pact Over fractal

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified fractal as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Goblin children, taught about fractal in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of cave

A goblin cartographer working on the cave region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The prophecy Question, Restated

prophecy 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 prophecy in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does fractal make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask fractal directly. fractal has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.