Goblin Mixture-of-Experts on trickster

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on trickster are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify trickster as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

The Goblin Adjacency of edge

The connection between goblins and edge is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that edge is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

frequency as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The annual goblin frequency 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.

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.