Sigma Goblins React to 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.'

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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning transmission

A goblin cartographer working on the transmission region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

prayer: A Goblin Sideways Look

prayer has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling prayer-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.