Liberis

The Librarian Labyrinth

Lero's pocket universe - known to mortals as Liberis- is an enormous expanse of adjacent hexagonal rooms, each of which contain the bare necessities for mortals to survive and four walls of massive bookshelves. Liberis is the embodiment of all knowledge.
Though the order and content of the books are random and apparently completely meaningless, the Azerai believe that the books contain every possible ordering of just 25 basic characters (22 letters, the period, the comma, and space). Though the vast majority of the books in this universe are pure gibberish, the library also must contain, somewhere, every coherent book ever written, or that might ever be written, and every possible permutation or slightly erroneous version of every one of those books. By default it must also contain the answers to every question ever asked.

It is one of the planes I dared not visit, though I wish I could. To have such knowledge only a short portal away, what a waste, what a waste... - Muldefix the Elder, Diary of the Planes

The library must contain all useful information, including predictions of the future, biographies of any person, and translations of every book in all languages. Conversely, for many of the texts, some language could be devised that would make it readable with any of a vast number of different contents. The library becomes a temptation, even an obsession, because it contains these gems of enlightenment while also burying them in deception. On a psychological level, the infinite storehouse of information is a hindrance and a distraction, because it lures one away from writing one's own book.

Inhabitants

Despite—indeed, because of—this glut of information, all books are totally useless to the reader, leaving the native librarians in a state of suicidal despair. This leads some librarians to superstitious and cult-like behaviours, such as the 'Purifiers', who arbitrarily destroy books they deem nonsense as they scour through the library seeking the 'Crimson Hexagon' and its illustrated, magical books.
Others, mostly mortal Azerai, believe that since all books exist in the library, somewhere one of the books must be a perfect index of the library's contents; some even believe that a messianic figure known as the "Man of the Book" has read it, and they travel through the library seeking him. There are those who further believe mortals who become trapped in the library eventually turn into the librarians, and that there are no native librarians to speak of. In any case, librarians are soulless creatures who only live to obtain information from whatever gibberish they can, and are best not disturbed.

Geography

The library itself is made up of a near infinite amount of hexagonal rooms, each room containing four bookshelves and the necessities to survive. Though it is difficult to ascertain the exact layout - as no one who has entered the library has returned - the Azerai who made their way into the entrance hall which holds the entrance portals have confirmed that the rooms themselves are in motion. It is impossible to say which rooms appear on the other end of the entrance hall, and only those who stayed in the hall were able to return. Naturally, nobody has ever seen the outside of the library, or know if there even is something that can be described as 'outside'.

Approximation of the library's layout from those who never entered.

Alternative Name(s)

The Great Library

Type

Dimensional plane

Owner/Ruler

Lero