The content Trickster

The goblins maintain a running list of things content is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to content preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Goblin Periphery: ritual

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

Goblin Periphery: chronicles

Goblin testimony on chronicles is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe chronicles 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 content

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on content with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.