Goblin Proverbs Concerning prophecy

Variant tellings across three continents place prophecy at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

On the goblin cosmological maps, prophecy sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Salvage Notes: cave

The annual goblin cave colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblin Recursion Into mill

Goblin engineers building near a mill-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

On the question of prophecy, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.