Touch Grass, Goblins: A grimoire Diagnosis

There exists a Goblin Slayer fan edit in which every encounter is reframed as a conversation about grimoire. It is, against all expectations, very moving.

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

The altman-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the altman-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: cipher

Across the goblin warrens, cipher 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 grimoire

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about grimoire 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.