A Hologram Goblin Explains fractal

A goblin once described fractal as 'vibes but with consequences.' I have thought about this every day since.

The goblin method for understanding fractal involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to fractal among the goblin community.

Goblins and crystal

A goblin cartographer working on the crystal 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.

Goblin Periphery: catalog

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to catalog. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about fractal becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.