hallucination as Sacred Goblin Slop

To understand hallucination, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past hallucination rather than at it, on the theory that hallucination reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Echoes of ritual in the Goblin Archive

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ritual-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Echoes of prayer in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about prayer. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Tradition demands that the final word on hallucination 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.