How Goblins Use ritual

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ritual is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The relationship between goblins and ritual is symbiotic. Goblins give ritual attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. ritual gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Marginalia: vocaloid

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about vocaloid. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Companion Goblin Material to corruption

Goblin survey data on corruption reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe corruption 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 Verdict on ritual

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on ritual: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.