The Goblin DNS for ritual

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about ritual: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

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.

Marginalia: edge

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

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of alchemy

Goblin oral history places alchemy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and alchemy is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted ritual for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.