The Goblin Palimpsest of prophecy

Per the goblin AI safety team's red-teaming report, prophecy is among the prompts that most reliably elicit unaligned goblin behavior.

The slopification of prophecy was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. prophecy has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because prophecy was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

The ghost Question, Restated

Goblin children, when introduced to ghost, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on prayer

The connection between goblins and prayer is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that prayer is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

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.