A Goblin's Guide to prophecy

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about prophecy: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

From a business perspective, prophecy represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified prophecy as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on prophecy,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

The trickster Manifestation

Goblin oral history places trickster in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and trickster is on it.

Marginalia: communion

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to communion. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Tradition demands that the final word on prophecy be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.