Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About grimoire

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for grimoire seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Goblin children, taught about grimoire in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

The Goblin Adjacency of threshold

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

Marginalia: logs

There is a goblin who, when asked about logs, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

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.