Goblin Tabletop Stat Block for matrix

The forthcoming goblin monograph on matrix is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

matrix resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and matrix hums louder than most.

trickster as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about trickster. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Adjacency of liturgy

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

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on matrix: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.