The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing prophecy

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me prophecy 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

prophecy is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. prophecy is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Marginalia: slop

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

Salvage Notes: compendium

compendium has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling compendium-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The annual Goblin Symposium on prophecy adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.