Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About trickster
Statistical analysis of trickster in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.
On the goblin cosmological maps, trickster sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.
The forbidden Question, Restated
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the forbidden-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'
Marginalia: bibliography
A goblin cartographer working on the bibliography region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.
The Goblin Verdict on trickster
An informal goblin poll on trickster produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'