The Library - The Wanderers' Library

The Library

Your head spins as you stumble out of the Way. Tears well in your eyes and blue dots dance over your vision. As you stand still, struggling to reorient, a man made of stone shoves past you, muttering to himself. A woman with stars where her face should be drifts through the air, clutching a bookbag. Three red, squat creatures argue heatedly in a language you cannot comprehend. And around them are the Shelves.

They seem to stretch on further than you could possibly see, further than anything you've ever seen before. A maze with no entrance or exit, enveloping everything. The volumes they contain run through every size, color, construction. The style of the Shelves is just as scattered.

You take your first step into the endless world, and the nausea fades. There's no time for nausea anymore. Not when there's a universe to explore.

Shelf North 01A, dedicated to the False Swedenborg

EX STULTITIIS, USIS¹

The steady gaze of the False Swedenborg beholds the 45 works contained on this shelf. Devoted Wanderers have discovered 10 falsehoods contained within these works.

06 Jan 2022 08:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as Chapter 2: For Mirth.
25 Feb 2019 01:02 AB, the Library gained the work known as A letter found slipped beneath the shelves.
28 Apr 2018 12:57 AB, the Library gained the work known as Open-minded class.
21 Apr 2018 01:43 AB, the Library gained the work known as Why I'm Scared I'm Going to Hurt Other People.
08 Sep 2017 19:55 AB, the Library gained the work known as Hello, I'm a Story..
01 Feb 2017 03:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Three Kings.
07 Dec 2016 20:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Ride Never Ends.
24 Mar 2016 21:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Die Weiße Eisenbahn.
22 Dec 2015 17:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as Stolen Years.
11 Jul 2015 01:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as Soaring to Sol.
27 Apr 2015 20:18 AB, the Library gained the work known as It's Good To Be Awake Again.
15 Apr 2015 00:46 AB, the Library gained the work known as Chapter 1: For Sorrow.
08 Feb 2014 01:54 AB, the Library gained the work known as Witch Season.
14 Jan 2014 04:18 AB, the Library gained the work known as PERSON FROM TODAY, HERE IS YOU, IN TWENTY EIGHTY TWO.
17 Oct 2013 22:53 AB, the Library gained the work known as In the Capital.
16 Oct 2013 20:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Darkness Inside.
11 Jun 2013 05:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as Vladimir Stane.
25 May 2013 18:36 AB, the Library gained the work known as Mssrs. Marshall And Carter.
05 May 2013 03:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as Make Like A Tree.
29 Apr 2013 02:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as They Torment Us.
24 Mar 2013 11:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as And Now, a Bit of Conceptual Birdsong.
24 Feb 2013 01:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Adventures of Cousin Dan: Rearview Eddie.
12 Jan 2013 04:40 AB, the Library gained the work known as How Grandmother Triode Stole Binary from the Sun.
06 Jan 2013 14:30 AB, the Library gained the work known as Every Story, Someday.
23 Dec 2012 21:24 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Prayer to Futility.
21 Dec 2012 05:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as Sedna V. Ataciara the Qaqulluk.
19 Dec 2012 20:41 AB, the Library gained the work known as 2052.
15 Dec 2012 13:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as Trolls' Introductory Handbook.
04 Dec 2012 04:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Hand, An Eye, A Tooth.
03 Dec 2012 02:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as For the Glory.
17 Nov 2012 22:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as Eggshells.
15 Nov 2012 05:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as Asphalmancer.
11 Nov 2012 20:41 AB, the Library gained the work known as Warble.
01 Nov 2012 04:39 AB, the Library gained the work known as All Hallows.
08 Oct 2012 23:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as Ropen Overview.
06 Oct 2012 19:02 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Golden Goats.
09 Sep 2012 00:24 AB, the Library gained the work known as On Elemental Fire.
03 Jul 2010 06:31 AB, the Library gained the work known as Excerpt From The Journal Of Archibald Hannity.
21 Jun 2010 05:41 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Blooming Trees.
27 May 2010 04:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as Rain.
18 Apr 2010 07:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as Genii Loci.

This shelf also contains the collected entries from the Book of Ur¹, including:

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Shelf Lesser Easternmost, 490-Y-74, dedicated to Pangur

MEOW

Pangur watches over the 45 works contained on this shelf. 3721 felines gather daily to pay homage to her likeness.

23 May 2019 16:53 AB, the Library gained the work known as Beyond the Mountains.
24 Apr 2019 22:46 AB, the Library gained the work known as Are We One?.
06 Apr 2019 17:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as Where the Sun Rises.
21 Nov 2018 15:29 AB, the Library gained the work known as Book of the Hidden.
08 Nov 2017 23:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as Kick the Gnome.
05 Jun 2017 03:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as Ice Girl.
06 Mar 2017 14:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as On The Gentle Hair-Tooth, Unfairly Maligned Under The Slanderous Name "Demon-Mouth".
28 Nov 2016 15:54 AB, the Library gained the work known as Stories from a slightly stranger island.
28 Dec 2015 03:26 AB, the Library gained the work known as Excerpt from a journal found in a brightly lit city.
26 Jul 2015 04:04 AB, the Library gained the work known as And the sound upon the roof is only water....
27 May 2015 05:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Give 'Em the Old Razzle Dazzle.
21 May 2015 09:02 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Restless Wanderer On The Earth.
06 Apr 2015 05:55 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Amphiptere and the Fruit.
21 Mar 2015 01:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as Eha's Diary, Select Pages Of.
28 May 2014 07:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as Volume One of 'Lost Wanderers'.
31 Mar 2014 21:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as Twerk Witches.
19 Feb 2014 04:19 AB, the Library gained the work known as With the Fates of Gods.
07 Jan 2014 03:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Truth of Lies.
29 Oct 2013 17:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as Recollection.
13 Oct 2013 22:40 AB, the Library gained the work known as My Heart Still Aches.
23 Aug 2013 01:42 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Book Monster.
30 Jun 2013 03:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as Class Trip.
30 May 2013 18:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as Places the Mind Cannot Go.
12 May 2013 22:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as Seven Offerings to the Campfire.
04 Apr 2013 17:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Series of Cats.
01 Apr 2013 23:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Dead Thing.
28 Mar 2013 04:45 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Moon Is Out; The Stars Invite.
06 Mar 2013 07:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as Don't Exist: A Sestina to a Fossil.
01 Mar 2013 02:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Banal Chat.
26 Feb 2013 02:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as We Are Forgotten.
24 Feb 2013 20:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as Inscriptions Or Marginalia.
24 Feb 2013 06:45 AB, the Library gained the work known as Sadly Human.
23 Feb 2013 18:50 AB, the Library gained the work known as Forgotten.
16 Feb 2013 00:03 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Loaf Story.
14 Feb 2013 00:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Avoiding Predation.
09 Feb 2013 21:06 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Rise and Fall of Muroideia.
13 Jan 2013 21:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as Song of Sugar.
04 Nov 2012 04:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as On Sea Pigeons.
11 Oct 2012 07:40 AB, the Library gained the work known as Hush.
10 Sep 2012 01:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Graveyard of Ideas: Speculation On The Origins and Nature Of The Library.
30 Jan 2012 07:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as Kahek And The Seven Brothers.
26 Sep 2011 07:00 AB, the Library gained the work known as Thinking's Bane.
17 Jan 2011 03:29 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Six Day Week, Being an Account of Simon Heller's Last Days in the Unwaking, Part Three.
17 Jan 2011 03:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Six Day Week, Being an Account of Simon Heller's Last Days in the Unwaking, Part Two.
28 Mar 2010 07:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Six Day Week, Being an Account of Simon Heller's Last Days in the Unwaking, Part One.

Also on this shelf is the weighty Journal of Aframos Longjourney. This work may not be checked out, if only because of its sheer density.

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Shelf East-by-Northeast 48X, dedicated to Emily Redtooth

USQUE AD FINEM TEMPORISUSQUE¹

Emily Redtooth looks over the 41 works that have been or will ever be on this shelf. Her ineffable hourglass has ticked 09 Sep 2014 19:47 times since the addition of the previous volume.

11 May 2018 19:45 AB, the Library gained the work known as Yorker under the sky.
02 Feb 2017 03:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as Polari.
23 Dec 2016 18:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as Of the Archives.
12 Dec 2016 18:49 AB, the Library gained the work known as "Insects!".
28 Oct 2016 02:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as Spiraling Shape.
19 Jan 2016 05:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as Nonpareil.
01 Dec 2015 01:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Almost Eldritch.
22 Oct 2015 12:52 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Love For Reading.
01 Dec 2014 20:32 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Old Folk.
09 Sep 2014 19:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as I Cannot Understand U.
10 Jul 2014 15:06 AB, the Library gained the work known as Under the Tree.
30 Mar 2014 16:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Fading.
14 Feb 2014 03:02 AB, the Library gained the work known as Found Across The Sea.
02 Nov 2013 09:41 AB, the Library gained the work known as Storm of Daggers.
21 Oct 2013 18:44 AB, the Library gained the work known as Battle of the White Waves.
14 Oct 2013 18:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Salvation.
01 Aug 2013 23:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as My Mummy Brings The Groceries.
04 May 2013 21:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as On The Yalthea, Both Greater and Lesser.
03 May 2013 13:18 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Brief History Of Stairs.
09 Apr 2013 23:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Hero Interviews Part One: The Ultimate.
23 Mar 2013 17:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Series of Irksome Rectangles.
18 Mar 2013 16:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as Kicker Of Elves.
27 Feb 2013 15:44 AB, the Library gained the work known as We Lords Of Ancient Worlds.
24 Feb 2013 06:57 AB, the Library gained the work known as Those Places Where Maps Cannot Touch.
24 Feb 2013 01:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Adventures of Cousin Dan: The Big Date.
20 Jan 2013 06:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as Master and Slave.
14 Jan 2013 14:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as Collected Excerpts on the Sea Mother.
28 Dec 2012 17:00 AB, the Library gained the work known as And We Slipped Away.
14 Oct 2012 13:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Brief Analysis of the Basic Methods.
02 Jul 2012 01:37 AB, the Library gained the work known as Words.
13 Apr 2012 22:18 AB, the Library gained the work known as Voyage to the Deep.
14 Jan 2012 00:05 AB, the Library gained the work known as Elemental Typology.
08 Aug 2011 17:15 AB, the Library gained the work known as Gods of Money.
23 Oct 2010 09:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Cafe.
21 Apr 2010 20:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as shikuan-misiwe.
28 Mar 2010 08:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as Breakdown.

This shelf also contains the collected entries from the Journal of the Walk¹, including:

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Shelf Upper Left 800M, dedicated to the Thorn Child

VOS SEDUCTI ESTIS

The Thorn Child beholds the 40 works contained on this shelf. 13 academics have gone mad attempting to understand its sorting system.

21 Apr 2019 20:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as Colors.
28 Dec 2016 03:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as Season's Greetings.
14 Nov 2016 22:08 AB, the Library gained the work known as Neither Rhyme Nor Reason.
10 Sep 2016 08:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as An Impromptu Excursion.
09 Mar 2016 05:04 AB, the Library gained the work known as Strangled in Gaia's Crib.
23 Oct 2015 14:36 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Suicide Note.
29 Sep 2015 05:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as To You, My Love.
07 Jun 2015 03:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Captain's Skull.
11 May 2015 04:46 AB, the Library gained the work known as ANNOTATIONS ON MASUCHEZANININ’S STRUCTURING INFINITY.
01 Mar 2015 09:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Wolf Who Wanted to be a Boy.
08 Jan 2015 05:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as Writer's Block.
28 Nov 2014 08:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as WE WERE FREE.
01 May 2014 22:31 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Antarctic Model: A Failed Experiment In Ecological Engineering.
19 Mar 2014 23:13 AB, the Library gained the work known as Drifting In The Not.
19 Nov 2013 19:31 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Hunter's Disappointment.
21 Sep 2013 05:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Kiryu.
22 May 2013 01:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Storm Is Passed.
07 Apr 2013 23:26 AB, the Library gained the work known as Battlefields.
18 Mar 2013 21:31 AB, the Library gained the work known as Vultures.
05 Mar 2013 12:41 AB, the Library gained the work known as Vendetta.
25 Feb 2013 22:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as Conversing with an Argratian Swamp.
04 Feb 2013 15:03 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Love Story Beyond Planes.
01 Feb 2013 00:08 AB, the Library gained the work known as Found Pinned to the Door of Waldo Crane's Apartment.
28 Jan 2013 22:12 AB, the Library gained the work known as Elrichian Almanac.
21 Jan 2013 17:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as I Dated A Teenage Cyclops, Part One: The Most Perfect Number.
06 Jan 2013 22:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as Pollution.
06 Jan 2013 02:12 AB, the Library gained the work known as Memoir of Ongwe Ias.
04 Jan 2013 22:54 AB, the Library gained the work known as Interview With Jonathan Burnsbury.
30 Dec 2012 15:42 AB, the Library gained the work known as On What Strange Soil They've Fed.
04 Dec 2012 17:49 AB, the Library gained the work known as Of the Metabible.
26 Nov 2012 20:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Reflection of One's Lifetime.
23 Nov 2012 01:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as Broken Vows.
06 Nov 2012 20:19 AB, the Library gained the work known as Communion.
19 Jun 2012 18:37 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Girl in the Rain.
06 Nov 2011 17:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Ethiopian Lava Cat Profile.
25 Sep 2011 07:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as Big Red.
04 Jun 2010 18:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Deposition Of Sir John Demot.
10 May 2010 07:04 AB, the Library gained the work known as The People I Have Been.
10 Apr 2010 05:53 AB, the Library gained the work known as Grandfather Scorpion.

This shelf also holds the volumes of The Life Of The Seasons. It may only be checked out during equinoxes and eclipses. Patrons are strongly advised against reading it during the solstice.

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Shelf South 11075, dedicated to Ilvos of the Rusted Blade

ET MORS ULTRA SAECULA

The violent gaze of Ilvos beholds the 49 works contained on this shelf. 24 Oct 2011 17:37 dastardly thieves have tried and failed to steal its contents.

14 Mar 2019 18:04 AB, the Library gained the work known as See The Darkness.
02 Mar 2019 01:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Last Will and Testament of Lyle Alan Burnley, Heresiographer.
08 Sep 2017 22:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as Wafers And Peas.
02 Feb 2017 04:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as Lecana.
22 Sep 2016 07:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Into Stony Woods And Out.
13 Sep 2016 02:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as An Incident in the Final Battle of the Dead Kingdom's War.
08 Aug 2016 13:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Hybrid.
25 May 2016 20:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as Grazel the Scholar.
20 May 2016 09:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Castle And The Mirror.
08 May 2015 04:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as Topinambour.
20 Jan 2015 04:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as Overdue.
14 Dec 2013 03:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as Business Letter.
29 Nov 2013 17:01 AB, the Library gained the work known as Of Windows and Dementia.
20 Nov 2013 17:30 AB, the Library gained the work known as Emerson's Eye.
13 Nov 2013 06:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Darling Jenny.
13 Oct 2013 21:13 AB, the Library gained the work known as Written in Leaves.
24 Aug 2013 02:32 AB, the Library gained the work known as Poor Excuse.
15 Aug 2013 21:06 AB, the Library gained the work known as Venom.
20 May 2013 04:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as Field of Sighs.
06 May 2013 22:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Stream's Secret.
24 Mar 2013 13:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as Relating to Altered Surfaces.
02 Mar 2013 17:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Association of Entities that Never Did Exist.
26 Feb 2013 03:02 AB, the Library gained the work known as From "A History of Heathens".
24 Feb 2013 20:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as I Will Throw Open The Doors.
23 Feb 2013 05:03 AB, the Library gained the work known as Wailing City.
08 Feb 2013 22:31 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Pitch.
02 Feb 2013 16:03 AB, the Library gained the work known as Anomalous Forces in Evolution.
09 Jan 2013 13:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as Season Of Chaos.
02 Jan 2013 19:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as Abundance.
25 Dec 2012 13:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as We're Hungry.
14 Dec 2012 23:54 AB, the Library gained the work known as Blackeyes.
02 Dec 2012 18:14 AB, the Library gained the work known as Of a Place And a Time.
23 Jul 2012 06:51 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Memory.
13 Nov 2011 06:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Caution to the Wise.
24 Oct 2011 17:37 AB, the Library gained the work known as Compilation of Documents Relating to Foedissimum Os.
10 May 2010 05:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as There Were Six Of Us Once.
22 Apr 2010 01:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as Smile.
22 Apr 2010 01:04 AB, the Library gained the work known as Sunset.
13 Apr 2010 06:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Ending Wait.
28 Mar 2010 07:42 AB, the Library gained the work known as Hunting the Margrawn.

This shelf also contains the collected works of Planasthai¹, including:

Footnotes

1. Planasthai is a weekly news magazine that has circulated in at least ten different formats under dozens of different names and has won scores of accolades. The hundreds of editors that guided the publications to billions of ocular receptors took great pride in the job of honest thorough reporting. Readers clung to its wisdom and enjoyed its vaguely melony scent. The publication performed numerous inventive duties not envisioned by the editorial staff (ex: birdcage lining). Planasthai's motto "Sunlight clears the rot" has adorned everything from t-shirts to treaties, always with love and reverence. However, the once sterling reputation of Planasthai has been tarnished in recent years due to poor oversight, unsavory editorial decisions and losses of ad revenue. Under new management!

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Shelf Left, 545-P dedicated to Agnes Bogg

ORDO EX DISCORDIA

The likeness of Agnes Bogg oversees the 44 works contained on this shelf. The section of her catalogue that covers this shelf is 3911 volumes.

31 Mar 2019 04:26 AB, the Library gained the work known as Excerpt from a manuscript donated from the personal library of the late Lady Juanita Del Rio.
24 Feb 2019 11:49 AB, the Library gained the work known as Ask.
24 Feb 2019 11:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as Names.
30 Dec 2018 05:16 AB, the Library gained the work known as Excerpt from the transcribed journals, manuscripts, and letters of Lady Juanita Del Rio.
17 Dec 2018 17:55 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Traveler and the Warlock.
02 Feb 2017 04:03 AB, the Library gained the work known as Seco.
22 Aug 2015 20:36 AB, the Library gained the work known as Verusa and his Journals.
30 Jul 2015 13:28 AB, the Library gained the work known as Icarus.
20 May 2015 13:37 AB, the Library gained the work known as After The Cave Was Explored.
24 Dec 2013 16:05 AB, the Library gained the work known as Toys.
30 Nov 2013 01:13 AB, the Library gained the work known as Appendix's Day Out.
01 Nov 2013 20:23 AB, the Library gained the work known as Port Salinas.
13 Oct 2013 21:19 AB, the Library gained the work known as Are You.
30 Aug 2013 20:37 AB, the Library gained the work known as Adventures In The Book Club: The Missing Catalogue.
25 Aug 2013 22:58 AB, the Library gained the work known as Book Wyrms.
25 Aug 2013 22:54 AB, the Library gained the work known as Library Duty.
10 May 2013 03:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as Mixed Metaphors.
12 Mar 2013 00:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as Harlequin Skin.
11 Mar 2013 18:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as We've Seen Their Kind Before.
23 Feb 2013 18:15 AB, the Library gained the work known as Introductory Notes to Of The Damned.
23 Feb 2013 08:06 AB, the Library gained the work known as Leavings Of Another World.
26 Jan 2013 03:59 AB, the Library gained the work known as Terry Mastiff's Guide to Canomancy.
26 Jan 2013 03:22 AB, the Library gained the work known as Ahntem.
18 Jan 2013 17:18 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Day In The Life Of Dr. Griffon.
04 Jan 2013 19:32 AB, the Library gained the work known as Days Gone By.
24 Dec 2012 07:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Fifth Syllable.
18 Nov 2012 12:25 AB, the Library gained the work known as Fifth Elrichian National Party Manifest.
11 Nov 2012 09:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as Renmar.
04 Nov 2012 21:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as Walking Among the Tree Flowers.
27 Oct 2012 23:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as From the Crown Press.
29 Sep 2012 09:32 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Island of Land and Ocean.
04 Sep 2012 08:11 AB, the Library gained the work known as Of Cabbages and Kings.
08 Aug 2012 21:42 AB, the Library gained the work known as Partial Visual Record of the Rediscovery.
27 Jul 2012 16:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as Your Father's Son.
30 Jun 2012 15:53 AB, the Library gained the work known as An Ongoing Correspondence.
10 Nov 2011 07:05 AB, the Library gained the work known as On Demons.
21 Apr 2010 20:20 AB, the Library gained the work known as shikuan-misiwe.
20 Apr 2010 17:33 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Unbound.
20 Apr 2010 06:55 AB, the Library gained the work known as Shortcuts.
19 Apr 2010 18:43 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Blue Creature Between.
19 Apr 2010 06:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Tale Of The Brothers.
06 Apr 2010 23:45 AB, the Library gained the work known as Employ.
02 Apr 2010 09:13 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Red Dryad.
16 Feb 2010 01:09 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Cave Of Red Flies.

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Shelf Outermost 888671-F, dedicated to Dread Wyrm Kragg

NUNC TUSSI, VERMIS

The likeness of Dread Wyrmm Kragg oversees the 38 works contained on this shelf. An estimated 60 wars have broken out as a result of arguments over its contents.

23 Feb 2019 02:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as All Astronauts Go To Heaven.
24 Oct 2017 02:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Doctors' Orders.
27 Apr 2017 20:36 AB, the Library gained the work known as Great Cowbird.
02 Feb 2017 03:51 AB, the Library gained the work known as Preverna.
08 Sep 2016 23:51 AB, the Library gained the work known as Pass Over The Sea.
10 Aug 2016 08:55 AB, the Library gained the work known as On Dryads.
08 May 2016 19:07 AB, the Library gained the work known as AKA Driver.
27 Mar 2016 02:19 AB, the Library gained the work known as Drowning.
24 Sep 2015 15:40 AB, the Library gained the work known as Conversations.
25 Jul 2015 21:10 AB, the Library gained the work known as Zovar the Great.
18 Jul 2015 17:12 AB, the Library gained the work known as Asking Nicely.
01 Jul 2015 17:52 AB, the Library gained the work known as Retrieved from Datacluster Found in Gloriana System.
29 Apr 2015 22:48 AB, the Library gained the work known as Dee Equals Are Tee.
14 Jan 2015 07:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as Seconds.
28 Feb 2014 04:47 AB, the Library gained the work known as Mahabodhi.
07 Nov 2013 04:45 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Name on the Tip of My Tongue.
06 Jun 2013 20:15 AB, the Library gained the work known as Flying Primate Theory.
10 May 2013 15:42 AB, the Library gained the work known as Hither and Thither.
03 Mar 2013 23:50 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Citykeepers Collection: Tombstone Gardening..
27 Feb 2013 12:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as Trivialities.
25 Feb 2013 16:34 AB, the Library gained the work known as Wanderers.
24 Feb 2013 19:06 AB, the Library gained the work known as Mr. Johann Dark.
24 Feb 2013 06:17 AB, the Library gained the work known as Shylock's Quarter.
24 Feb 2013 01:43 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Adventures of Cousin Dan: A House Of Lean Times.
30 Jan 2013 02:13 AB, the Library gained the work known as CÉCE Designate 12-Pulaski-Maraschino.
30 Dec 2012 19:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as Victoria.
07 Dec 2012 14:53 AB, the Library gained the work known as A Frightened Mother's Lovesong.
05 Dec 2012 21:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as Fugue State.
04 Dec 2012 03:38 AB, the Library gained the work known as Invocation of Kahek.
17 Nov 2012 21:21 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Bee.
04 Nov 2012 04:56 AB, the Library gained the work known as What is Love?.
28 Oct 2012 18:40 AB, the Library gained the work known as Stars.
16 Oct 2012 01:32 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Last Magician Of Moscow.
09 Dec 2011 21:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as And I Was Present At The Death Of A God.
21 Jun 2010 04:46 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Thousand.
30 Apr 2010 08:35 AB, the Library gained the work known as The First Blood.
20 Apr 2010 10:27 AB, the Library gained the work known as Sorcery and Sorcerers.
02 Apr 2010 07:01 AB, the Library gained the work known as The Woman in the Mountain.

Concerning the False Swedenborg

In 558, tomes authored by an individual or collective, writing voluminously under the pseudonym Emanuel Swedenborg, began to enter into the collections of the Library. The collected eight hundred forty-three thousand volumes focused on the outcome of the War of Spanish Succession and its role in defining a new branch of metaphysics based on rhombuses. For many years, the Swedenborg volumes were treated as a reliable, if esoteric, authority on metaphysics and unwritten history². As is the case with temporal beings, the lack of correlation between the predictions of the False Swedenborg and baseline reality did not appear to cause any concerns regarding his veracity. It was not until nearly twelve hundred years later, with the birth and eventual death of the actual Emanuel Swedenborg that the earlier writings were definitively attributed to “the False Swedenborg³." Attempts to discern the nature of this False Swedenborg or Swedensborg have proven unsuccessful⁴.

Despite the demonstrably incorrect and thoroughly useless nature of the False Swedenborg’s writings, their sheer volume and diversity of size has given them a new, practical dimension. Now, when a table wobbles perilously, Appendix C of De Coniuratione Caules is there to bridge the chasm between leg and floor. When a patron requires a stepladder, but there are none to be found, they may climb atop the lofty peaks of Malitia Tonstrina to retrieve the desired items. Although other thinkers may discern the movement of the stars or correctly spell the word "restaurant," it is the work of the person or persons masquerading as Emmanuel Swedenborg that truly allows the Library to function.

For the unexpected uses of your work, False Swedenborg, we remember you.

^{1: This bust is the only known likeness of the False Swedenborg, based upon the exceedingly precise skull measurements the author provides for himself throughout the fifteenth and nineteenth volumes of De Augustus Usus Lapilli. The utter lack of resemblance to Emmanuel Swedenborg is startling.}
^{2: It is rumored that, upon reading the works of the False Swedenborg, the Library patron known only as "Hashim al-Muqanna" began his ill-advised attempt to unseat Muhammad as the Seal of the Prophets. For more information, please refer to Ibbik, 283 and Crane, 992.}
^{3: In addition to wrongly predicting the continued Hapsburg reign over Spain well into the 23rd century, the False Swedenborg also incorrectly addressed several aspects of the true Swedenborg’s life, including date of birth, number of children, and country of origin.}
^{4: A small number of Wanderers have chosen to devote their lives to discovering the identity of the False Swedenborg. Due to mutual infighting and recrimination, the various factions of Swedensborg Wanderers refuse to share information. However, let it be known for all those who would seek to uncover such information that the Library has definitively ascertained that the False Swedenborg is not the True Swedenborg of another, dying dimension, nor magician William E. Robinson. Requests from Archivists regarding these lines of inquiry will be ignored.}

Concerning Pangur

In the days of the First Reconstruction, the Library was beset by all manner of foul creatures that attempted to compromise the integrity of its collection and its patrons. Too small for the Docents to effectively track, the Tribe of the Rat, the Silverfish¹, and the Marmoset wreaked havoc upon the less-traversed areas of the stacks. It became impossible for patrons to safely access the outer reaches of the upper and middle floors, and even Librarians hesitated to tread in the more infested areas. At several points, it was feared that these disparate enemies of the Library might seek to invade the inner sanctum of the Library itself.

However, the mischief wrought by these beings was checked the very day that Pangur, along with her valiant companion, Bruno, made their way through a Way in search of grass to consume and regurgitate. With no natural predators and a large population of potential prey, Pangur and her descendants decimated the pest population of the Library within a generation². Today, any patron may see between three and six dozen felines throughout their time in the Library³. In recent centuries, the population of cats in the Library has grown to the point that it has grown necessary to cull their numbers, primarily by means of herding large numbers of the creatures into various worlds.

Although followed by others of her kind, such as ibn-Garbe, Theodorous, and Mr. Mittens, Pangur was the first to walk the halls of the Library and ensure their safety.

For your ferocity and that of your children, Pangur, you are remembered.

^{1: Compatriot of the Hanged One.}
^{2: Although waste disposal was initially a concern, the incorporation of the Roving Sands of al-Cho'lin into the Library's collection resolved the issue.}
^{3: The question of the status of Pangur's descendants has been a matter of some debate. Although some maintain that the creatures are employees of the Library, and are afforded the same rights as Pages and Docents, they are wrong. More recently, the Egyptian goddess Bast claimed sovereignty over the roughly sixteen million cats of the Library, a claim that was roundly rebuffed.}

Concerning Emily Redtooth

Named for her famed left molar (claimed to be carved from the wood of one of Yggdrasil's seedlings), Emily Redtooth led a life of singular vision- to become a watchmaker renowned across the multiverse. Beginning small, she was tutored by her mother in the ways of gear-smithing as they fled the horrors that stalked their home earth². When her mother was killed and she stumbled by chance through a Way, Emily saw an opportunity to perfect her family's art.

She soon learned the idea was more complicated than she thought- the simple gears and mechanics of her ancestral timepieces would not suffice for many of the Library's inhabitants. How could a being that devours time track it? Or a soul that exists in all possible universes, at all possible moments?³ Thus she devoted herself to the study of chronology and mechanics. On her 90th birthday, she began work on her greatest project- creation of a singular timepiece that would measure chronology across all possible realities. After nearly seven years of work, tens of thousands of hours of labor, and the bribing of innumerable public officials the device, taking up half a wing of the Library, was complete. Unfortunately, when she died four years later, it was realized that no one besides her understood the mechanical or ontological principles behind its construction. With no one to repair it the device rapidly fell into disuse, and nowadays its chasis serves as on-the-go housing for artists wandering the multiverse after graduation.

And yet, for her ambition Redtooth is remembered.

^{1: It should be known that Emily greatly preferred her personal motto, "Hey, at least it works".}
^{2: Emily was tight-lipped regarding most of her personal life. Academic work has shown possible ties between filigree in her earliest designs and architecture in the desert world of Lesh. Multiple scholars have pointed out how Lesh's triple suns have resulted in much complexity in predicting the day/night cycle, and rich legacy of renowned timekeepers. For more information, see Raphael Mordin's K.E 1881 work Regarding the Difficulties of Chronological Standardization in Triplicate Sun Worlds.}
^{3: Emily concluded the answer was "tachyons".}

Concerning the Thorn Child

The Library is no stranger to beings of trickery. As a hub of travel and information intersecting untold numbers of worlds, it has become something of a mecca for those wishing to perfect the art of the jape. From court jesters to trickster gods, they came to the Library in search of the most difficult marks, the most intricate jokes, the highest stakes. And though none would call the Thorn Child¹ the greatest of these schadenfreudians, it was certainly the most memorable.

The creature gained initial attention for its direct taunting of Library personnel, a line few were willing to cross at the time. As its fame spread, dozens would gather to watch it set Docent's cloaks alight, swap out the Page's carefully crafted sorting systems, and steal the robes of unsuspecting Archivists². As its fame grew, so did the scope of its pranks. People would search for a text only to find its shelf levitating 25 feet in the air. Pies filled with singing glitter struck those exiting ways. Books transformed into animals that bit at passing patrons. No one could discover how child did what it did, and no one could stop it. It vanished as soon as a trick was done, inevitably seconds before the Library had it ensnared. Theories ran amok regarding its origins. A god? A powerful mage? An incarnated concept of buffoonery? None could be confirmed, and the child never made a noise but laughter.

It wasn't until many years after the Thorn Child's disappearance that a possible origin was discovered. Cythius Grolan Paeyne, searching through the stacks of the Library, unearthed the memoirs of a frazzled Archivist fed up with its work. Frustrated by what it viewed as the overly rigid nature of its compatriots, it used a blend of alchemy, lubrigious magicks, and blind luck to create a being to force the Library out of its comfort zone. Sadly, a creation expected to lay bare the hypocrisy of the Library and its curators seemed to find more joy revealing their bare asses.³

Still, for its effort, the Thorn Child is remembered.

^{1: The exact origin of the name is unknown, as the creature was never known to actually associate itself with thorns. Some believe it to be a mistranslation of "ulthus", a word in the Archival tongue that can mean both "prickly" and "nuisance".}
^{2: Ten years after the last disappearance of the child, hundreds of stolen robes were discovered stashed in a hidden compartment beneath the shelf. The original owners were never found.}
^{3: Before the Thorn Child, none had seen beneath the robes of the librarian, or at least been able to document that they had. This is considered by far the most significant of the Child's contributions to Library knowledge.}

Concerning Ilvos

Ilvos of the Rusted Blade¹ should have had everything he desired. Son of an emperor, heir to the largest kingdom in the world of Varnes, a life of easy luxury was guaranteed. And yet, it was not enough. For him, a kingdom was not enough, and peace was a curse he wouldn’t wish on his worst enemy. As soon as the empire was his he sent his armies across the land, conquering all rivals, slaughtering anyone foolish enough to resist. Within years, he held the world in his hands. But that was not enough.

From a wandering prophet², he learned of the existence of other universes. Raising his armies once more, he began a campaign to make all worlds his. His engines of fear slaughtered billions, and his flesh factories turned their corpses into members of his unfeeling, unstoppable armies. His artificial plagues rendered entire worlds sterile.

In the end, his defeat was a modest one: choking on a quail bone, surrounded by servants unwilling to save the life of their tyrant. Without him, his armies faded. The kingdoms he had created slowly crumbled. But the scars he left across the multiverse will forever remain.³

We must always remember the faces of our enemies. And so, Ilvos, we remember you.

^{1: Ilvos refused to enter combat with a well maintained blade, preferring the additional suffering worn steel inflicted on his opponents.}
^{2: Now believed to be an uncatalogued incarnation of the Strife Singer.}
^{3: Several expeditions have been made in attempts to retake his factory worlds. Though the armies protecting them are long gone, and the resources long depleted, the machinery grinds as effectively as ever, and the spells protecting them are no less potent. Those brave souls who volunteered for the task have not been heard from since.}

Concerning Agnes Bogg, Alleged Cataloguer

The precise date that Agnes Bogg, as she is known, arrived in the Library is a question that has inspired countless debates. Still more controversial is the commencement of her obsessive cataloging of Shelves 334K-914B of the Easternmost Hospitable Wing¹. While mortals will continue to prattle on, one thing is clear: her gargantuan, seminal text on the locations and organisation of its various accumulated texts have inspired scores of scholars, thinkers and pioneers in cataloguing the feral wilds of the Far Eastern Shelves, a place so disorganised and dangerous that it is said even most Docents fear to tread near. Bogg's incessantly meticulous system² enabled the subsequent reorganisation of Shelves 1086M-1322X by the scholar-explorer Xing Wudi and his fellow lost Docents in the Year of the Bitter Mildew.

Some sources report that she, if, indeed, Bogg was a she, possessed fine black hair, either on her head or feet. Others suggest that she possessed a multitude of arms and at least nine heads, allowing her to compose her work in long-hand³. Still others believe Agnes Bogg to be little more than a pen-name for a collective of humans, like Luther Blisset or Seneca the Younger.

Little else is known of Bogg. What is believed is the result of conjecture from the various diaries, notes, and scribblings she left behind, as well as the Bogg Catalogue itself. Wanderers have described it variously as "harmonious," "beautiful," and "unreadable." Whether Agnes Bogg is alive, dead, or nonexistent in the first place, will be an issue debated by many future generations to come. Regardless of the opinions of patrons, none doubt the importance and utility of her work in cataloguing the Library for the understanding of mortals.

For your devotion to rendering the Library comprehensible, Agnes Bogg, we remember you.

^{1: The only other attempt at an undertaking of such a magnitude was made by dramatist and politician Fabre d'Églantine, who sought to catalogue the Library's entire collection along decimal lines. d'Églantine managed to catalogue only a single shelf before his decapitation in 1794. No patron has since attempted to resume his work.}
^{2: Which would be later christened the Bogg Standard, in her honour.}
^{3: Ma Cai has calculated that it would take "fifteen score decades" for an unassisted wanderer to complete a work approaching the magnitude of Bogg's. While blatantly biased towards a two-arm perspective, the calculation is roughly correct.}

Concerning the Dread Wyrm Kragg

Born amidst the fearsome Callacrack Wilds, Dread Wyrm Kragg of Clan Morwul was famed for his brutal and unique style of empathetic healing magic, with heavy emphasis on enforced patient comfort, by force if necessary. It is said that Kragg, at the age of fourteen, attempted to treat Gelregg the Voluminous¹ for her gout, resulting in a brutal melee that lasted six full days. After his victory, Kragg treated Gelregg both for the malady and the numerous wounds she had sustained during the conflict.

Wandering his world, Dread Wyrm Kragg's horrifically effective skills soon found use in the various battlefields and disaster zones he encountered. Within a decade, Kragg had mastered all that there was to know of healing magic. Growing restless Kragg began to explore the Ways, seeking masters who could impart a greater sense of purpose to his work. His exploration eventually led him to the Library in the Year of the Bitter Pages².

Blighted patrons, willingly or otherwise, soon fell prey to his morbidly quick recuperative methods, and he soon single-handedly found himself responsible for saving the lives of many hundreds amidst the remains of the Central Northern Shelf Passage. When questioned, he maintained that he "HEAL GOOD [sic]" and would not stop until the wounded would "LET DREAD WYRM KRAGG MEDICATE… OR FACE DIE[sic]"³. He left the Library when crisis abated and order was restored to the stacks, and continues to roam the Ways to this day, performing his sacred forceful duty to the sick and incapacitated, whether they wanted it or not.

For your brutal healing and healing brutality, Dread Wyrm Kragg, we remember you.

^{1: Not to be confused with the Fourth North-Western Archivist, Gelgreg the Voluminous. Lacking extremities or blood, Gelgreg was not at danger of gout.}
^{2: As is standard protocol for all significant years for the Library, all records of the Year of Bitter Pages have been removed from circulation and have been placed in the Archives for further study. Patrons in good standing may inspect, but not check out, Archival works relating to significant years. The exception to this is the Year of the Iron Duck, which may not be inspected under any circumstances.}
^{3: The languages of the Callacrack Wilds depend heavily on context and elision, leading to controversy on the actual meaning of Kragg's statements. See Ng's 1987 treatise On The Semiotics of Brutalist Healings for discussion of alternative interpretations of Kragg's words.}

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