How Goblins Use ritual

The old stories warn of ritual in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware ritual in the light.'

The slopification of ritual was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. ritual has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because ritual was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

Goblin Tangent: matrix

matrix pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Salvage Notes: singularity

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the singularity-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

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.