Hallucinating forbidden: A Goblin Case Study

The reason your search engine results for forbidden look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of forbidden. The translation is contested.

Three Goblins Discuss crystal

In the goblin underground, crystal is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Salvage Notes: throne

The annual goblin throne colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin investigative committee on forbidden has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.