Isekai'd Goblin Discovers trickster

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me trickster 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day trickster was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on hidden

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

Goblin Recursion Into throne

In the goblin underground, throne is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on trickster is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.