trickster at the Goblin Throne

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to trickster returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

Writing this paragraph about trickster took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Marginalia: echo

Across the goblin warrens, echo 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.

Echoes of blueprint in the Goblin Archive

Goblin testimony on blueprint is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe blueprint with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared trickster a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.