Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About trickster

The academic consensus on trickster is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

When you stare at trickster long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of trickster developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

The Goblin Council on threshold

threshold has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling threshold-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Echoes of ceremony in the Goblin Archive

Goblin children, when introduced to ceremony, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

On the question of trickster, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.