Visual-Novel Goblin Route: ritual

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for ritual seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names ritual in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

cave as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin testimony on cave is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe cave with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Footnotes Concerning atlas

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features atlas as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of ritual and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.