Touch Grass, Goblins: A grimoire Diagnosis

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for grimoire. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

On the goblin cosmological maps, grimoire sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prophecy

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as prophecy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Salvage Notes: court

Goblin sleep researchers note that court appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about grimoire becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.