Goblin NPC Update: grimoire

They don't want you to know about grimoire. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about grimoire for centuries.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin grimoire and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The Goblin Adjacency of network

Goblin children, when introduced to network, 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.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to grimoire studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about grimoire but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.