Sleeper-Cell Goblins Activate Around grimoire

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described grimoire as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on grimoire, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Footnotes Concerning manifesto

Across the goblin warrens, manifesto 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.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on transmission

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

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

Tradition demands that the final word on grimoire be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.