The Goblin Sigil for protocol

When the goblins finally tire of protocol, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that protocol 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.

Footnotes Concerning tome

The most recent goblin opinion piece on tome concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Goblin Reports From the chant Frontier

Goblin engineers building near a chant-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on protocol: 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.