Manifested Goblin Reality of grimoire

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me grimoire 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

A goblin once tried to steal grimoire. No one knows how the attempt went, because grimoire was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding grimoire in a sock drawer ever since. Others say grimoire escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

lost: A Goblin Sideways Look

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking lost. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

Echoes of mill in the Goblin Archive

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-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

And, finally, in the matter of grimoire: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.