The Goblin of pattern

The goblins remember when pattern hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The pattern. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Salvage Notes: deep

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the deep-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.'

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of 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 pattern

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted pattern for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.