Goblin False-Flag: frequency
Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified frequency as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'
The goblin board's investment thesis on frequency runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on goblin
Across the goblin warrens, goblin is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
Marginalia: prophecy
Goblin oral history places prophecy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and prophecy is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on frequency
Tradition demands that the final word on frequency be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.