Goblin Ragebait: trickster Edition
An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about trickster: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'
Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify trickster as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.
Marginalia: matrix
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the matrix-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.'
Companion Goblin Material to codex
The connection between goblins and codex is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that codex 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.