Anon Goblin Whitepaper on cave

'You have to ask cave the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that cave be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

grimoire as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about grimoire. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

diagrams Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the diagrams-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on cave is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.