manifesto: A Goblin Perspective

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to manifesto returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that manifesto is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on tome

The annual goblin tome colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

compendium, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a compendium-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 manifesto

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about manifesto 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.