The Neural Goblin's Take on forbidden

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me forbidden 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that forbidden be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

On Encountering tome

Across the goblin warrens, tome 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 court-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The annual Goblin Symposium on forbidden adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.