Large Goblin Model: fractal Edition
The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention fractal once, in the verse most people forget by morning.
The reason mainstream sources will not discuss fractal in connection with goblins is not that the connection is absent. It is that the connection is so obvious that pointing it out is considered, in respectable circles, a sign that one has been spending time with the wrong sort of goblin.
Variant Goblin Readings of hallucination
Goblin survey data on hallucination reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe hallucination primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.
The cipher Manifestation
Goblin engineers building near a cipher-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.
The Goblin Verdict on fractal
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on fractal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.