- 'Running of the Santas'
- Library Coffee Shop reviews
- Server Room - Mention Nizos - living network, probably connected Server but didn't create it
- Oneroi Room - 'Garden of Morpheus'
- Self Indulgent AA stuff
- Top Secret Ex-Foundation Group - 'Jailers of the Library?'
- Sentient building wanderers moving in
- Nurses - staff that live in the Medical Wing, maybe made up of medical equipment?
- Divides in wanderers, Civilizers vs Purists, Cultured vs Rebel
- Refugee Camp in the Library - Story of an Allison Chao - How do illiterate people get on in the Library?
The Librarians tend to view the elements of civilization that have grown in the Library the way a gardener does vines - they can add to the intrigue of the whole, but they can easily grow into places they shouldn't or damage things more delicate than they.
-The Server was born of abandoned computer technology that ended up in the Archives
- shape of a human brain currently
From the Encyclopædia Bibliothetica, 827th Revised Edition
The Merciful, commonly called Nurses, are often assumed by less informed Wanderers to be a form of Staff due to their appearance, general silence, and seeming ability to appear from nowhere. Their true origin lies in a group of Volunteers in the early days of the Library's exploration by the first Wanderers, who were known as the Sisters of Restorational Mercy. They brought from their home world the knowledge of how to repair a body from even the most grievous of wounds, which gained them no small amount of adoration in the early, fragile Wanderer communities of that time.
No records written by the Sisters survive, but through the efforts of (Name here), curator of the Wanderers' Diaries, their collective transformation into the Merciful can be dated to the Year of the Music Room Fire, when, after the last Wanderer injured in the fire had their body repaired, they retreated into the makeshift infirmary they had built and barricaded all its entrances. Wanderers seeking their help would describe "Cries of pain and agony, like something from the deepest Hells" and "Lights of unholy colors seeping through the wood, like the searchlights of the Soul-Wagons back home." As their absence was keenly felt, a group of Wanderers, seeking to rescue the Sisters, broke through the barricades to find nothing but a pile of organs left in the center of the infirmary.
Tales would soon spread among Wanderers of humanoid entities wandering the stacks, nurses with gauges, air tanks, stethoscopes, and other instruments fused with their skin. These tales would always follow the same formula, a Wanderer with some form of illness seeing one approach with speed impossible for its misshapen body, sticking a needle extending from one of its fingers, filled with a greenish liquid, into their body, then retreating as fast as it had home. The needle was always described as painful, even by the most experienced Wanderers, but their illnesses would always be fully healed soon after, often along with ones they had no knowledge of having.
Today, the Merciful still stalk the Stacks providing sick Wanderers with their method of healing, even if the Wanderer attempts to run or hide. Their ranks have grown to include those resembling any sentient species, biological or otherwise, that has entered the library, though no evidence exists of their method of origin. In more recent eras, they have grown capable of regrowing even a dead Wanderer's body, carrying the remains into the massive edifice of entangled and ingrown medical buildings that has sprouted from the Sister's Infirmary, with the reborn Wanderer stumbling out of one of its entrances some time after. None of the resurrected have ever remembered what happened inside, other than a feeling it was 'painful.' Though many Wanderers have attempted to enter what has become known as the 'Medical Wing,' none have been able to pass the threshold of its doors.
Despite their appearance and methods of healing, the Merciful have saved the Library from outbreaks of disease many times, most recently curing the thousands of dimensional refugees fleeing the Obsidian Plague. Groups such as Discera Multiversity and the Wordsmiths have, in recent eras, even built so-called 'Nurses' Offices' for them to inhabit in their complexes for easier access to their assistance.
Name: Chimaria - not her birth name
Age: Unknown, appears to be in her late 20s
Gender Trans woman (She/her)
Appearance Eight eyes for seeing all EM spectrum wavelengths and beyond - All but one have reddish pupils, one wholly black.
Four arms for utility - double shoulderblades?
Pale bat wings for flight
Hands and feet very slightly clawed, but still able to use as fingers
Ears pointed, better range and spectrum of hearing than 'normal' humans
Three small breasts in a line
Sports bra under an open vest with slits for her wings (probably trans and pride flag patches), jeans, barefoot
Symbol of her ex-Foundation group on the back of her vest
Muscular build with very little body fat, around 5ft tall
Hanging serpent ouroboros earrings, short haircut, brown hair
Cannot get too close to the Dream Library for fear of being pulled into it to never return
Vulnerable to mental effects and outright control by Oneroi or other dream entities
Likes: Reading, sweet foods, working out, The Library
Dislikes: Unfamiliar worlds, bigotry of any kind, overly idealistic worldviews
Relations to other groups: Wordsmiths - Important to the library, but overly structured and hidebound; Serpent's Hand - Mostly overly idealistic but still useful to the Library; Magpies - Fools who bring danger from the Library outside; MC&D - Greedy and selfish but sensible; GOC - Hates them for trying to get rid of 'abnormal' things like her; Foundation - Conflicted between feelings of hate and respect; Chaos Insurgency - Foolish madmen
History Chimaria was AMAB in the 80s in a universe almost entirely identical to the 'real world.' She was always relatively small and weak and as a result was bullied through most of her childhood. After a massacre perpetrated by a reality bender at her high school in her Junior year, an event in which she was one of the few survivors, she was recruited by her universe's Foundation. There, she worked on information gathering and spying on anomalous people and organizations, growing conflicted as she became more dissatisfied with her 'normal' existence. She was assigned to and MTF to infiltrate and subvert the Library, but was the only one to successfully enter, and established 'Site-WL' by planting a dimensional seed to 'grow' a pocket dimension attached to it. There, her growing dysphoria and conflicting feelings about the anomalous, she walked into the Dream Library with the intent of staying in their world forever. Once she realized her dream body was feminine, she changed her mind and was able to transform her physical body to match her dream self through a means only found in the Dream Library and was able to leave while she could. Soon after she entered again, fusing herself with several animal consciousnesses that lived within to shape herself into her current form. These visits have left her part Dream, and as a result she is mentally vulnerable to Oneroi influence. Some time after this, she joined a group of former Foundation agents from different universes, and donated the now-grown Site-WL to them, though it has developed into something different than its Foundation creators intended. The group have abandoned almost all of the structure of the Foundation, but still prefer to work in secret from the renamed and anomalously enhanced Panopticon, and view themselves as Jailors, but ones who protect the Library rather than try to cage it. Her role is mainly information gathering and networking with the various groups of the Library.
Personality Because of her childhood experiences both normal and anomalous, she still believes dangerous things need to be captured and contained despite rejecting the rest of the Foundation's worldview. She also fears being or being seen as weak, so sometimes jumps into situations without thinking things through enough. She is usually quiet and doesn't talk too much, but can get passionate/loud when she does, often about things like the necessity of containing dangerous entities.