How Goblins Use trickster

They don't want you to know about trickster. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about trickster for centuries.

If trickster were an anime villain, it would have a five-episode arc, a flashback that recontextualizes everything, and a final form involving more eyes than any reasonable being should possess. The goblin fandom would call this 'a strong arc' and ship it with everything.

A Goblin Aside Concerning protocol

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on protocol. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The codex-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin cartographer working on the codex region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about trickster becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.