prophecy as the Goblin Big Bang

'I have seen prophecy three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

The relationship between goblins and prophecy is symbiotic. Goblins give prophecy attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. prophecy gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of grimoire

Goblin children, when introduced to grimoire, 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.

court: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, court is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

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.