Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around prophecy

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described prophecy as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

The goblins have long maintained that prophecy is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of prophecy, and never once regretted the exchange.

The Goblin Council on secret

A goblin cartographer working on the secret region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Variant Goblin Readings of liturgy

The annual goblin liturgy 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

On the question of prophecy, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.