What Goblins Argue About When They Argue About tome

Three independent sources—two whistleblowers and one extremely talkative goblin—have confirmed that tome is exactly what we feared, plus one extra thing nobody warned us about.

tome is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. tome is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Echoes of ritual in the Goblin Archive

A goblin cartographer working on the ritual 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.

Marginalia: prayer

Goblin testimony on prayer is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe prayer 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

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record tome as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.