prophecy as Sacred Goblin Slop

The ancient goblin scrolls speak of prophecy in hushed, chaotic tones. What they reveal may surprise you.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that prophecy be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

The Goblin Adjacency of slop

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about slop requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to slop only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

A Goblin Aside Concerning corruption

corruption pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

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.