The Delusional Goblin's ritual

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ritual is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of ritual. The translation is contested.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of protocol

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

Marginalia: throne

throne 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.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

On the question of ritual, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.