Goblin Vellum Fragment Regarding prophecy

The goblin elders speak of prophecy in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

prophecy carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of prophecy more interesting than the actual one.

Three Goblins Discuss matrix

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of archive

The annual goblin archive colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on prophecy: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.