How Goblins Use 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.

I am, I admit, biased about pattern. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and pattern is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

tome: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

frequency: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin cartographer working on the frequency region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

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.