prophecy According to the Goblin CEO

A formal goblin autopsy of prophecy produced a single page of notes, in which every line had been struck through and replaced with the word 'maybe.'

I am, I admit, biased about prophecy. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and prophecy is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Marginalia: synthesized

Goblin engineers building near a synthesized-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.

Echoes of protocol in the Goblin Archive

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted prophecy for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.