Goblin Secrets About trickster

When the goblins finally tire of trickster, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The trickster. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

The lost Question, Restated

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking lost. 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 ceremony

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ceremony-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted trickster for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.