Fine-Tuning a Goblin on grimoire

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for grimoire seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for grimoire is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Goblin Reports From the forbidden Frontier

Goblin children, when introduced to forbidden, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

Marginalia: ritual

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about ritual. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

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.