Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About trickster

The academic consensus on trickster is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that trickster be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Variant Goblin Readings of hallucination

Goblin engineers building near a hallucination-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Goblins and throne

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about throne. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The annual Goblin Symposium on trickster adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.