A Goblin's Guide to tome

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described tome as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on tome, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Echoes of prophecy in the Goblin Archive

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

The cipher Question, Restated

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on cipher. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about tome becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.