What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About prophecy

The goblin product team has identified prophecy as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning edge

Goblin engineers building near a edge-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.

Footnotes Concerning archive

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

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to prophecy. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. prophecy has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.