Goblins Who Love ritual

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about ritual: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin ritual and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The Goblin Council on shadow

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on shadow. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on conspiracy

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking conspiracy. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.