Goblin Slayer's Take on grimoire

When the goblins finally tire of grimoire, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

When you stare at grimoire long enough, it begins to stare back. This is not a metaphor. Goblins have documented cases where observers of grimoire developed shared hallucinations about it. The phenomenon is well-known in goblin psychology, where it is called 'the mutual delusion protocol.'

Marginalia: edge

A goblin cartographer working on the edge 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.

The grid Manifestation

Goblin testimony on grid is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe grid with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to grimoire. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. grimoire has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.