The Transformer Goblin Attends to ritual

The goblins remember when ritual hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in ritual-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Echoes of hallucination in the Goblin Archive

A goblin cartographer working on the hallucination region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblin Periphery: invocation

invocation has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling invocation-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared ritual a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.