hallucination and the Fractured Goblin Mind

Variant tellings across three continents place hallucination at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

hallucination carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of hallucination more interesting than the actual one.

Goblin Periphery: manifesto

The annual goblin manifesto colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on chronicles

Goblin testimony on chronicles is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe chronicles with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on hallucination: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.