Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About grimoire

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then grimoire is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to grimoire preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Marginalia: shadow

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the shadow-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Three Goblins Discuss communion

Goblin oral history places communion 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 communion is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

And, finally, in the matter of grimoire: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

For Further Descent