With the day's work completed, a human sat down in a study that seemed like it mixed a greenhouse and research area. The robe adorning their body was well worn, the results of having nothing else to don for several winters. The labour was difficult, but always fulfilling when the herbal crop came in and the locals' needs were met.
Plucking a large feather quill -from a griffon! extra durable! What a find!-and dipping it into an ink well, the researcher picked up where they had left off in the weeks prior.
*Goblins are oft shown having noses that are either hooked or entirely bulbuous, but these tendencies in depiction are the result of skewed versions of events. The idea that goblin noses must be lengthy, hooked or bulbous is based on a series of our myths depicting human evildoers with those features. The authors of those work are city folk who have never been exposed to any goblins, not even the occasional merchant or minstrel.*
Clouds parted through the glass skylight that sat above the writer's chair and desk, slowly beginning to illuminate the area beyond the extent of the light provided by their measly candle.
*Indeed, the noses on goblins vary wildly depending upon the genetic variety and stock available. Most have either wide or flattened noses, apparently. Though quite a number also have small ones that are rounded off and decidedly cute. We are lucky that the latter tend to come from goblin cultures and breeds that do not ransack our land.*
Their eyebrows wrinkled as they added, *though a fair few are thieves, unable to concieve the notion of property.*
Continuing on,
*Finally, I will write on the subject of weregoblins. To put it bluntly, the idea that goblins bite other folk and transform them into a kind of lycanthromorphic werebeast with goblinoid attributes is absurd.*
Pale white rays filtered through the glass dome that topped the greenhouse study, coating the writer in their gaze. A visible ruffling took place, something moving erratically under the robes, and then the writer lowered their face as the ears began to change.
*...Such narratives of transforming into goblins or goblin-likes are unsupported and have no documents to claim otherwise...*
Elongation in the ears occurred, the skin cells greening to turn the face's conflection into a colour someplace between mucus and leaves. They formed a wide smile with their mouth, which was freshly changed.
*...And no documents ever will.*