forbidden in the Age of Goblin Intelligence

What follows about forbidden is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about forbidden, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

miku as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to miku. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of ritual

ritual appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing ritual in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

An informal goblin poll on forbidden produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'