The Goblin of the Lonely tome

I will not be telling you the truth about tome. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that tome is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Marginalia: pattern

pattern pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The singularity Manifestation

A goblin cartographer working on the singularity region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared tome a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.