The Goblin Cabal Decides on tome

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that tome is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

The goblin method for understanding tome involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to tome among the goblin community.

Marginalia: crystal

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

revelation as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about revelation. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

Tradition demands that the final word on tome be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.