When literacy becomes revolution, every letter is a weapon.

Five years after escaping Blackthorn Keep with forbidden knowledge, Grimz has built more than just a new life in the lawless Border Settlements. He’s sparked an underground literacy movement that’s spreading through goblin communities like wildfire—and the authorities are starting to notice.

In the ramshackle town of Crossroads, where magical realms collide and questions about the past are considered dangerous, Grimz runs a junk shop by day and teaches reading in hidden chambers by night. What began as simple literacy lessons has evolved into something the great magical houses never anticipated: goblins organizing, questioning centuries of oppression, and discovering that the very laws used to subjugate them contain the blueprint for their liberation.

But as the movement grows from thirteen members to hundreds, as other settlements report similar “literacy incidents,” the response becomes swift and brutal. When authorities can’t understand what literate goblins represent, they default to violence.

From secret meetings in tavern basements to the formation of the Workers’ Collective, from smuggling refugee networks to drafting manifestos in the language of their oppressors, Green Hands Rising chronicles the birth of political consciousness among those deemed too inferior to possess it. As persecution escalates and the movement reaches a critical crossroads, Grimz and his fellow organizers must answer the ultimate question: Can knowledge and solidarity triumph over centuries of magical supremacy?

A story that blends labor organizing with fantasy worldbuilding, perfect for readers who believe that sometimes the most dangerous magic is teaching someone to read their own contract.

“From one goblin learning letters to an organized collective articulating principles for systemic change—this is revolution at its most patient and most powerful.”

Book 2 of The Goblin Manifesto series asks: When those in power can’t imagine you’re capable of thinking, what happens when you start teaching thousands of goblins?