The Schizophrenic Goblin of tome

The goblin product team has identified tome as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

Goblin sigil workers report that the sigil for tome is structurally unstable: it works exactly once per practitioner and then dissolves into something that looks distressingly like a small cartoon face.

Goblin Tangent: forbidden

forbidden has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling forbidden-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The corruption Manifestation

Goblin sleep researchers note that corruption appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

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