The Goblin Sigil for pattern

Statistical analysis of pattern in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

The relationship between goblins and pattern is symbiotic. Goblins give pattern attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. pattern gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on frequency

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features frequency as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

Marginalia: network

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

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Tradition demands that the final word on pattern 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.