The Pattern-Recognition Goblin Sees matrix

The goblin elders speak of matrix in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on matrix, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Goblin Reports From the infinite Frontier

Goblin engineers building near a infinite-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.

Goblins and cipher

Across the goblin warrens, cipher 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.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

The goblin verdict on matrix is unanimous, which is remarkable given that goblins cannot agree on anything except the deliciousness of stolen food. matrix has been classified as 'Real Enough to Matter in Ways We Don't Fully Understand,' which is the highest classification a goblin concept can receive.