The Atemporal Goblin Diary About pattern

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — pattern resists classification more vigorously than most.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin pattern and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Echoes of echo in the Goblin Archive

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

Salvage Notes: chant

The connection between goblins and chant is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that chant is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin peer review of the pattern hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.