prophecy in the Goblin King's Court

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described prophecy as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The connection between prophecy and goblin perception becomes clear when you stop trying to be rational. Schizophrenia—as mundane humans call it—is simply pattern recognition without the safety brakes. prophecy triggers this system in ways that mundane objects cannot, because prophecy was never meant to be seen clearly.

The court Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking court. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on prophecy: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.