The Living Library
The Living Library is an expanding, some even say sentient structure below the Academy Arcane. It predates the academy, and is widely held to be the largest repository of knowledge in the Inner Realms. Some say it is the greatest in the Realms as a whole, but this is a harder claim to prove.
The library's passages twist around each other, following some design of its own. Its halls stretch like fingers into the earth under the school, burrowing deeper and deeper. No one knows how deep they go, as each layer is haunted by monsters who make their home in the darkened passages. Students of the Academy are forbidden to go beyond the first floor without the accompaniment of at least one Librarian, for their own safety.
The Library's main entrance is a gatehouse in the basement of the Academy's main building. The Librarians who guard this entrance, return stray books, and keep the Library's threats contained have their office and armoury here.
Architecture
The passages of the library are only five feet wide, but are a startling thirty feet tall, with the walls bending toward each other into a peak. Every wall is floor-to-ceiling bookshelves, and dead-ends end in points similar to the arched ceiling.
Alternative Names
The Endless Archive
Type
Library
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