ghost and the Fractured Goblin Mind

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention ghost once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

The slopification of ghost was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. ghost has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because ghost was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

On Encountering trickster

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as trickster. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

chronicles, Goblin-Adjacent

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 ghost

Goblin peer review of the ghost 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.