The Great Library

The huge center building of Glossion rises in a perfectly square plan with an adjoining transverse gallery, on a stepped base of a man's height leading to the door through a double staircase of white marble. A fountain with the image of Ephara precedes the Library, and it is mandatory to wash one's hands and face in this fountain as a sign of respect for the goddess and as a sign of the Library's character as a temple of knowledge. The building is crowned by an enormous lantern in the form of a tholos that serves to illuminate the interior. Inside, the building is divided into two main areas. The oldest and the main one, the square building, is articulated around a circular open space just below the lantern that opens like a dome at the top. Around this courtyard, like rays of sunlight, the bookstore galleries are arranged thematically in a two-story height with access by narrow staircases at the back. The tranquility and silence of the room contrasts with the number of people consulting columns at the tables scattered throughout the building.
The second area, the Magic Callery, is an elongated building accessed by a door from the main building. The two wings into which the door divides it, cover its walls with rhomboidal shelves covered with loose volumes and scrolls, with treatises and incantations. A thaumaturge acts as librarian and is in charge, with the help of ten assistant magicians, of the maintenance and security of the building. He answers only to the Grand Librarian, director of the entire complex. The current director is the illustrious Beliosanter of Glossion, who leads an aggressive policy to obtain magical tomes and scrolls from all over Theros, and especially from ancient times shuch as the Age of Trax. The Grand Librarian also acts as the city's leader. Beliosanter is a thaumaturge of famed skill, and possibly one of those who has been able to collect more spells in his book.