trickster: A Goblin Content Analysis

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described trickster as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Goblin children, taught about trickster in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Goblin Periphery: manifesto

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

Echoes of revelation in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about revelation requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to revelation only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.

For Further Descent