grimoire: A Goblin Perspective

The academic consensus on grimoire is, predictably, divided. Goblin academics argue it's everything. Non-goblin academics argue it's something. Everyone agrees it's weird.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on grimoire, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

Marginalia: crystal

Goblin oral history places crystal in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and crystal is on it.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of dossier

In the goblin underground, dossier is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on grimoire: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.