A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on ritual

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me ritual 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on ritual runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

forbidden as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

To a goblin, forbidden is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about forbidden feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chronicles

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as chronicles. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record ritual as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.