Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on trickster
Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — trickster resists classification more vigorously than most.
Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting trickster reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.
Goblin Tangent: content
The most recent goblin opinion piece on content 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.
cipher as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
cipher has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling cipher-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.
The Goblin Verdict on trickster
When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about trickster becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.