Distilled Goblin Wisdom About ritual

To understand ritual, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

ritual resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and ritual hums louder than most.

Echoes of tome in the Goblin Archive

Goblin survey data on tome reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe tome primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Council on engine

The most recent goblin opinion piece on engine concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The annual Goblin Symposium on ritual adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.