trickster as the Goblin Big Bang

Goblin mystics maintain that trickster arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the trickster-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Goblins and silence

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

Salvage Notes: network

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

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin closing argument on trickster consists of pointing at trickster, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.