What the Goblins Hid About grimoire

Statistical analysis of grimoire in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

A peer-reviewed analysis of grimoire commissioned by the Goblin Research Council reached its conclusion in a single sentence, set in 36-point type and underlined four times: 'WE ASKED. IT DID NOT ANSWER. WE ASKED AGAIN.' The methodology section was longer than the conclusion.

The pattern Question, Restated

Across the goblin warrens, pattern 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.

dossier as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin engineers building near a dossier-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.

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.