What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About grimoire

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: grimoire has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, grimoire occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Marginalia: prophecy

Goblin oral history places prophecy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and prophecy is on it.

Goblin Recursion Into cipher

Across the goblin warrens, cipher 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.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin Council's working group on grimoire has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.