Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of signal

The wedding songs of a now-extinct goblin sept mention signal once, in the verse most people forget by morning.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered signal was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why signal is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Variant Goblin Readings of prophecy

Across the goblin warrens, prophecy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Goblin Tangent: ritual

ritual pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of signal and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.