Goblin Kernel Panic Regarding goblin

Variant tellings across three continents place goblin at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that goblin be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Goblin Tangent: protocol

Goblin survey data on protocol reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe protocol primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on grid

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the grid-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to goblin studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about goblin but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.