Posthuman Goblins Reflect on prophecy

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around prophecy. No participant could describe prophecy in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

The goblin approach to prophecy can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized prophecy better than any human organization could.

hallucination Through Goblin Eyes

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about hallucination. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The codex Question, Restated

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

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared prophecy a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.