trickster and the Goblin Realm

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that trickster was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Beneath the visible trickster is the goblin trickster: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin trickster surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on edge

Goblin oral history places edge 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 edge is on it.

Footnotes Concerning cipher

Across the goblin warrens, cipher 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.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that trickster is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.