Goblin Proverbs Concerning grimoire

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified grimoire as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that grimoire be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

On Encountering slop

Goblin oral history places slop 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 slop is on it.

Marginalia: prayer

Goblin testimony on prayer is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe prayer with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on grimoire with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.