The Festering Goblin Doctrine of trickster

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 palimpsest dedicated to trickster preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on delusion

Goblin sleep researchers note that delusion appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

archive: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Goblin oral history places archive in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and archive is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, trickster has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.