- Author Page
- The Grid
- Veil cross
- Library Ranks
- Jailor's Museum
- Coalition
- Serpent's History
- A fictioneer in The Library
Library card.
- Metal structures with sigils that replace fingerprints in a role akin to biometric scanning.
- Limitless development of cybernetic biology.
The Grid is the intranet of the Wanderer's Library, created using technology acquired from the myriad timelines of Earth's history, and brought together by staff and volunteering patrons alike. It additionally acts as a means to bolster the creation and distribution of paratechnology amongst the Library's occupants.
Hardware infrastructure
The Grid is composed of various machines linked by a network of artificial ways through which energy signals and transmission cables are fed. The network is developed and maintained by entities such as the wayward spiders and even the Librarians themselves. The use of this network's superluminal transmission speeds in conjunction with sufficient computing power for data analysis provides a highly effective method for soothsaying, allowing technologies of the future to be accessed in the relative present.
- telomn server.
- seraphim mechanism.
- The Second Deluge.
- Dark Science.
- Cartographic module.
- Thunderbird.
Information Security
The Grid is equipped with a variety of cryptomantic wards gathered by organizations like the Wordsmith Guild to secure the privacy of its users and defend against cyber-attacks. This allows it to act as a virtual private network through which variants of the terrestrial internet can be accessed.
Beyond the veil lies the wonders and terrors beyond mundane reality. I had glimpses of this beyond, and I obsess over them profusely.
Sorting for Friends of The Library
Wanderers
Those registered to access the Library by ownership of a card.
Patrons
Patrons are members of the Library's broader collective of staff.
Moderators
Archivists
The archivists of the Library act as a body of administration for the library.
The 8 chief archivists
- Architect of The Main Hall, J. Ryan Beattie was their most prominent representative.
- Keeper of the Five Archives in the Darkness Bellow. The Blank Room
- Xorvar twins
- Damnatio Memoiri
- Gryphon
- Caduale Mezerizo
- Jericho Benalsh
- The Rounderpede
The Monument Gallery is an ever-expanding, ontologically self-contained museum. The interior geometry of spacetime is distorted into paradoxical manifolds, attributed to it's status as an embodiment of confusion and mystery.
The Foundation and it's counterparts often use a variation of Hermetic Alchemy. The first notable aspect is how they apply the classical elements conceptually.
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Water
The element of Water represents the preternatural and the unknown. it is symbolized by elaborate labyrinthian structures. These labyrinth symbols are the basis for the Monument Gallery in multiple ways:
- The architecture and spacetime manifolds provide a maze-like structure.
- Due to an association with "choose your own adventure" narrative structure, the Gallery provides access to different realities and timelines.
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Fire
The element of Fire is used to represent notions of "humanity", specifically in relation to the Greek titan Prometheus and analogues "fire bringer" archetypes.
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Earth
The element of Earth represents containment, normalcy, obfuscation, and stability. Ironically, the labyrinth can also act as a form of confinement, like that which housed Minotaur of Greek myth.
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Air
The element of Air represents "non-human" subjects.
Ether is a mediator for the primary quartet; allegedly, this is what the number 5 in the phrase "O5 Council" represents. It's suspected that the "Council of Five Overseers" sparsely mentioned in various reports, such as those pertaining to o5-0, was meant to represent the elemental quintet.
The Global Occult Coalition, the ones you know as "Bookburners", are an improbably pervasive form of perennial philosophy. A wide range of religious organizations co-exist within the Council of 108, including groups that, by most accounts, should oppose each-other, including those known to have performed literal book burnings. Power alone is not enough to motivate such unlikely collaborations; another unifying factor is undoubtedly at work in this case.
- Plato and the Fortress of Timaeus
- Praetorian Defectors of The Archive Eternal
Background (360 BCE to 380 CE)
The key predecessor to the Hand formed in the Akademia of Athens, wherein Plato created a being known as "The Crystal" during his research into the nature of ideatic space and its relation to material existence. Subsequent experiments prompted the search for a "form of knowledge", which gained renewed significance after Alexander III of Macedon died in 323 BCE. Such efforts culminated in the discovery of the Archive Eternal beneath the grounds of Alexandria, Egypt.
Related scholars took great efforts to conceal the Archive throughout the following centuries, until the entrance was completely buried after the Library of Alexandria was burnt down. Later, findings of the Platonic scholars were recovered by the Praetorian Order of Hidden Wisdom and later the arcane scholars of Titus, who pursued many forms of sorcery in the pursuit of knowledge. This was brought to a halt in 380 CE by the edict of Thessalonica and the banning of pagan cults, forcing imperial arcanists into hiding, forming the clandestine Ordo Iani.
Hand of the Serpent (380 CE to 1453 CE)
Research into the Platonic form of knowledge, and methods of sorcery associated with it, led some scholars to take interest in the emerging movements of Gnosticism. Rogue Ordo Iani members formed the Hand of The Serpent, a Sethian Gnostic order with religious devotion to the protection of knowledge, whose efforts drew public attention to the Wanderers Library.
In the years after its formation, the Hand developed into an organized, militaristic cult, dedicated to the protection and spread of knowledge at any cost. Using their knowledge of the Library, members gained favor from numerous other groups, expanding the order's influence dramatically.
This endless story is just an evolving of stories which have ended. Even in Hugh Everette's many worlds interpretation, timelines corresponding with works of fiction are easily found.