A Hologram Goblin Explains grimoire

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on grimoire are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day grimoire was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Echoes of hallucination in the Goblin Archive

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

The liturgy-Adjacent Goblin File

liturgy appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing liturgy in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

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.