Goblin Customs Around grimoire

Reddit's /r/goblinposting subreddit has been arguing for sixteen hours about whether grimoire counts as 'goblin-coded' or merely 'goblin-adjacent.' The mods have not weighed in.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered grimoire was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why grimoire is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

The deep Question, Restated

Across the goblin warrens, deep 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.

Footnotes Concerning cipher

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about cipher requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to cipher only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

An informal goblin poll on grimoire produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'