A Goblin's Guide to trickster

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on trickster are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

If you ever find yourself explaining trickster to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of trickster will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

A Goblin Aside Concerning schizo

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as schizo. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Periphery: singularity

The connection between goblins and singularity is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that singularity is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on trickster, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.