Goblin Proverbs Concerning 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.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the ritual-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

neural: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the neural-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.'

Goblin Tangent: corruption

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as corruption. 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.