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Common copies of books and scrolls lined the library open to the public, but the true gems of literature were stored deep within the antiquitarium.
For many, that place was forbidden, not from any sense of entitlement or neglect of education for the common folk, but because the general public mustn't be trusted to not bring harm to delicate knowledge passed down from the age of enlightenment, whether deliberately or fully intentionally (and such political harm is commonplace and well known. Not even art was sacred, or it was too sacred to be depicted). But most dared not to come unless they had good intention since it was located in the westernmost reaches of the military complex, next to the barracks.
Maps, charts, religious texts, only for mystics to be seen and studied and passed down in the towers of the one palace now turned library and school.
But could not the Jaleyaanan scribe-magicians produce more copies of them at ease? At a price of degrading the text on the original, most dared not the risk of endlessly reproducing prized antiquities in any other method but plain transcription, which took time and effort to reproduce.
Once a manor-castle, it's been a long time since the building has been retrofitted into a library and a beautiful one at that. The entryway was a spacious room whose flooring held a mosaic depicting various constellations, which were also mirrored at the deep blue dome above it in gold. Certain stars, such as the Hamtares, Balasan, Imtuar and Šaltanus were especially brightly marked, for these were among the brightest on the sky. The southern wing of the library was where the newly made school for medical practitioners lay, and it was staffed and visited by many people of various races and creeds, most extraordinary of which were the occasional anaphite curators.
The north wing, however, was where the library was most grand. Assistants were around to help retrieve books and scrolls of higher levels, and there were many pillows, carpets and low seatings to comfortably read, and if one could not, Sahiyi mystics, easily identified by their white robes and black drapes around their shoulders, offered to teach the skill or hold classes on given topics like mathematics and writing.
But, the towers and the western hallways, they were forbidden.
For many, that place was forbidden, not from any sense of entitlement or neglect of education for the common folk, but because the general public mustn't be trusted to not bring harm to delicate knowledge passed down from the age of enlightenment, whether deliberately or fully intentionally (and such political harm is commonplace and well known. Not even art was sacred, or it was too sacred to be depicted). But most dared not to come unless they had good intention since it was located in the westernmost reaches of the military complex, next to the barracks.
Maps, charts, religious texts, only for mystics to be seen and studied and passed down in the towers of the one palace now turned library and school.
But could not the Jaleyaanan scribe-magicians produce more copies of them at ease? At a price of degrading the text on the original, most dared not the risk of endlessly reproducing prized antiquities in any other method but plain transcription, which took time and effort to reproduce.
Once a manor-castle, it's been a long time since the building has been retrofitted into a library and a beautiful one at that. The entryway was a spacious room whose flooring held a mosaic depicting various constellations, which were also mirrored at the deep blue dome above it in gold. Certain stars, such as the Hamtares, Balasan, Imtuar and Šaltanus were especially brightly marked, for these were among the brightest on the sky. The southern wing of the library was where the newly made school for medical practitioners lay, and it was staffed and visited by many people of various races and creeds, most extraordinary of which were the occasional anaphite curators.
The north wing, however, was where the library was most grand. Assistants were around to help retrieve books and scrolls of higher levels, and there were many pillows, carpets and low seatings to comfortably read, and if one could not, Sahiyi mystics, easily identified by their white robes and black drapes around their shoulders, offered to teach the skill or hold classes on given topics like mathematics and writing.
But, the towers and the western hallways, they were forbidden.
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