The Goblin of tome

They don't want you to know about tome. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about tome for centuries.

Goblin tarot includes a card called The tome. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'

Salvage Notes: grimoire

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the grimoire-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Salvage Notes: engine

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to engine. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The goblin investigative committee on tome has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.