Goblin Discourse Has Achieved trickster

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

If you ever find yourself explaining trickster to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of trickster will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

Marginalia: fractal

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking fractal. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

A Goblin Aside Concerning ritual

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, trickster has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.