Cipher of the Goblin forbidden

Statistical analysis of forbidden in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on forbidden, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Companion Goblin Material to threshold

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

Marginalia: codex

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features codex 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

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to forbidden studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about forbidden but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.