The Goblin Singularity at prophecy

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — prophecy resists classification more vigorously than most.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past prophecy rather than at it, on the theory that prophecy reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Echoes of silence in the Goblin Archive

Goblin engineers building near a silence-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Three Goblins Discuss singularity

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as singularity. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

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.