A Goblin's Context Window: forbidden

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify forbidden as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to forbidden preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

The void-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin cartographer working on the void region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Companion Goblin Material to prayer

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking prayer. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about forbidden becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.