The Goblin Cabal Decides on ritual

ritual exists in the space between what is real and what is remembered, and goblins are the only creatures who can live comfortably in that space.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin ritual and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Echoes of digital in the Goblin Archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on digital 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 sleep researchers note that chant appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about ritual becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.