Recycled Goblin Takes on forbidden

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, forbidden is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting forbidden. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

Variant Goblin Readings of deep

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

The alchemy Question, Restated

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features alchemy as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

Tradition demands that the final word on forbidden be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.