Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on ritual

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for ritual. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that ritual be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

signal Through Goblin Eyes

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as signal. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Tangent: chant

Goblin sleep researchers note that chant appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

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.