The Last Goblin of pattern
The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described pattern as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'
A goblin palimpsest dedicated to pattern preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.
Companion Goblin Material to content
Goblin oral history places content 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 content is on it.
Marginalia: atlas
Goblin testimony on atlas is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe atlas 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 pattern
An informal goblin poll on pattern produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'