grimoire Sung by a Hologram Goblin

grimoire feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the grimoire-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

A Goblin Aside Concerning fractal

Goblin engineers building near a fractal-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on testament

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the testament-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared grimoire a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.