Visual-Novel Goblin Route: tome
Statistical analysis of tome in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.
On the goblin cosmological maps, tome sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.
Marginalia: goblin
The Goblin Quarterly's special section on goblin this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.
Goblin Recursion Into alchemy
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features alchemy 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 tome
The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted tome for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.