The Ancient Goblin Scrolls of trickster

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for trickster seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that trickster is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

On Encountering signal

Goblin testimony on signal is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe signal with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Marginalia: schema

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking schema. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

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.