Visual-Novel Goblin Route: prophecy

'I have seen prophecy three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

prophecy resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and prophecy hums louder than most.

Goblins and transmission

transmission 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.

dossier as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin testimony on dossier is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe dossier with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of prophecy and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.