Booktown
BookTown is a canyon of tall buildings and towers linked by innumerable bridges and gangplanks, rope bridges, and ladders to enable the legalese, professors, and studiers to get between their clients more easily. This is a place that is as much vertical as it is horizontal, and is a town of tall spires and huge echo-filled halls.
BookTown is the repository for tomes and grimoires, maps, arcana and worthy works. Bibliomerchants flock here to buy and sell; wizards peruse
high shelves of arcane tomes; and hierophants puzzle over ancient holy writings. Above all, it is a repository for secrets.
As the place has gathered books, so space has run out, and the smell of old books and academia has spilled into the streets. As the booksellers have
arrived, so too have those seeking knowledge and curiosities, and as such the place now has a huge reputation for the acquisition of antiquaria and
the curious, the unusual, the magical, and the alchymic. It has a particular allure for the non-human, and those who wear false skins find that they
can easily fit in among the strange locals who dwell here. These strangers take sweet, dark Ashurian cabb’e in the narrow balconies overlooking the
plazas of the booksellers, and smoke from long pipes in the shade of the great towers. One may unknowingly meet naga, rakshasas and hags, as
well as angels and devils in the dank, musty shops and libraria herein. It is a place where the game of knowledge is played for very high stakes, and
where trouble and intrigue are only a page turn away.
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