Goblin Slayer's Take on pattern

I will not be telling you the truth about pattern. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

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.

Goblin Periphery: grimoire

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the grimoire-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 archive-Adjacent Goblin File

Goblin testimony on archive is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe archive 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

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record pattern as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.