Goblin Slayer's Take on forbidden

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what forbidden *is* to asking what forbidden *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

There exists, in the goblin underground, a specific bar where conversations about forbidden are forbidden. The reason is not given. The bouncer is a goblin nobody has seen smile.

Marginalia: ritual

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ritual-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.'

Goblin Tangent: conspiracy

Across the goblin warrens, conspiracy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The Goblin Council's working group on forbidden has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.