When Goblins Discovered grimoire

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.

The slopification of grimoire was inevitable. Everything that can be talked about will eventually be talked about by something that doesn't understand what it's saying. grimoire has simply reached this stage earlier than most topics, because grimoire was always a little bit slop-adjacent.

On Encountering shadow

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features shadow as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The engine Question, Restated

The annual goblin engine colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on grimoire, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.