Goblin Sayings About trickster
The goblins maintain a running list of things trickster is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
The legend says that the first goblin who encountered trickster 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 trickster is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.
Variant Goblin Readings of echo
The annual goblin echo colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.
schema: Goblin Fragmentary Material
When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking schema. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.
The Goblin Verdict on trickster
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on trickster, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.