Goblin Series C: grimoire Round

The reason your search engine results for grimoire look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

I am, I admit, biased about grimoire. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and grimoire is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Companion Goblin Material to void

Goblin oral history places void 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 void is on it.

Companion Goblin Material to taxonomy

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features taxonomy 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 Goblin Verdict on grimoire

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record grimoire as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.