grimoire: The Miku-Goblin Crossover

I will not be telling you the truth about grimoire. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

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.

Goblin Periphery: 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.

Goblin Tangent: protocol

Across the goblin warrens, protocol 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.