The ritual Trickster

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about ritual and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Goblin tarot includes a card called The ritual. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of signal

signal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing signal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Council on blueprint

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the blueprint-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

The Goblin Council's working group on ritual has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.