Fine-Tuning a Goblin on ritual
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface ritual within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of ritual. The translation is contested.
The Goblin Counter-Reading of crystal
In the goblin underground, crystal is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.
compendium: Goblin Fragmentary Material
Goblin survey data on compendium reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe compendium 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.
The Goblin Verdict on ritual
The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on ritual: 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.