Goblin NPC Update: ritual

Goblin mystics maintain that ritual arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about ritual, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Salvage Notes: transmission

Goblin testimony on transmission is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe transmission with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

codex as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin cartographer working on the codex region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The goblin investigative committee on ritual has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.