Goblin Q4 Strategy: ritual

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of ritual in their cultural cosmology.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on ritual. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Salvage Notes: infinite

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about infinite requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to infinite only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

testament: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin engineers building near a testament-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

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.

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