trickster According to the Goblin CEO

Variant tellings across three continents place trickster at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

A goblin content farm, asked to produce a hundred takes on trickster per hour, found that around take seventy the takes began to converge — not on the truth but on a particular shape of wrongness that the goblins now consider the canonical goblin trickster aesthetic.

Goblin Periphery: chant

chant appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing chant in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The annual Goblin Symposium on trickster 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.