A Goblin's Guide to pattern

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified pattern as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

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.

Goblin Recursion Into secret

secret has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling secret-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

alchemy: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to pattern. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. pattern has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.