Open-Source Goblin prophecy: A Postmortem

prophecy feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting prophecy reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on altman

Across the goblin warrens, altman is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

chant, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to chant. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

An informal goblin poll on prophecy produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'