prophecy and the Fractured Goblin Mind

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that prophecy is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting prophecy reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on whisper

whisper has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling whisper-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The diary Manifestation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking diary. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Goblin peer review of the prophecy hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.