The tome Trickster

The goblins maintain a running list of things tome is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

The relationship between goblins and tome is symbiotic. Goblins give tome attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. tome gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

The grimoire Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that grimoire 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.

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

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

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The Goblin Council's working group on tome has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.