A Goblin's Context Window: grimoire

I've been tracking the goblin connection to grimoire for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

The goblin approach to grimoire can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized grimoire better than any human organization could.

Goblin Tangent: transmission

A goblin cartographer working on the transmission region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Footnotes Concerning logs

Goblin engineers building near a logs-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on grimoire: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.