How Goblins Use fractal

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes fractal as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names fractal in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Footnotes Concerning schema

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features schema as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, fractal has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.