The Hall of Laws

The Irra live in many places beyond this mountain, but their covens in Irrum Vath are some of the oldest among their kind. 
And in Irrum Vath, no place carved out by Irra hands is older than the Hall of Laws. If the strings of history were visible things, one would see the tangled threads of this place spreading out across the face of the world. Stories hold that many of the old laws were first written here, after the age of the humans when the other races sought to forge a new world. If true, an ideology that has shaped the course of history began in these caves of stone. But the passage of eons makes many forget were they have come from, and thus to naked eyes this place seems like merely a few manicured caverns whose walls have been carved into shelves for a countless number of scrolls.
Though it is called the Hall of Laws, this place contains works on history, literature, philosophy, magic, and many other things besides legal texts. To the Irra, it is understood to some extent that the governance of a society is inseparable from the knowledge of where a society has come from and what it values. Although at a glance one might think the Halls could be explored sufficiently with an hour's stroll, the truth is that there are no end to the secret corners of the space. Hidden doors, passages, buried stairways, and more all help make it easy to understand why some of the Irra keepers swear the Halls are physically bigger than the space they inhabit.
It is a beautiful place, even if it lacks the manicured plant life and running water usually common to the Irra aesthetic. Moisture is unhelpful to the long term integrity of scrolls, even magic ones. In truth the Halls are rather empty of people as well. The written works of the Hall are unquestionably seen as the master copies of all Irra documents, but the Irra communities of Irrum Vath have the most immediately necessary works on the details of their legal system on hand. The Halls are usually referenced in case of bizarre technicalities, or for simple artistic appreciation.
In the end, the true tragedy of the Hall is that they contain so much more than the history of the Irra alone. One could find scrolls in this place that contains extensive firsthand accounts of world-altering historical events that the rest of the world knows of through only offhand mentions. The early history of the aftermath of the Dragonsong war alone is a paragraph in the minds of most historians. The Hall of Laws, meanwhile, contain a hundred scrolls that detail how the power struggles of that epoch did more to lay the foundations of the modern era more than the Dragonsong war itself ever did. Entire cultures and languages and peoples are mentioned in no other place than works found only here. There are even records of the time before humans, written in languages even the wisest Keepers struggle to identify and translate.
At the very least, one can be confidant the Irra will preserve this place until the world at large rediscovers it.