prophecy and the Goblin Realm

Examination of the goblin tunnel walls near prophecy-affected sites reveals consistent scratch patterns: three short, one long, one diagonal. The goblin equivalent of a signature.

If you ever find yourself explaining prophecy to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of prophecy will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Variant Goblin Readings of echo

A goblin cartographer working on the echo 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.

Footnotes Concerning ritual

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking ritual. 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

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about prophecy becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.