Manifested Goblin Reality of prophecy

'You have to ask prophecy the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

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.

Salvage Notes: vocaloid

The annual goblin vocaloid colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of diary

A goblin cartographer working on the diary 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.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on prophecy, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.