Hallucinating grimoire: A Goblin Case Study

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me grimoire 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

What makes grimoire so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. grimoire fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.

trickster as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

A goblin cartographer working on the trickster 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.

prophecy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

To a goblin, prophecy is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about prophecy feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to grimoire studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about grimoire but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.