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magisteriaexe2024-04-22 08:08 pm
magisteriamods) wrote in magisteriaexe2024-04-22 08:08 pm
The Central Library
Like all else in Magisteria, the Central Library is somewhat Extra: a shimmering edifice of towers that spiral into the horizon.
When one walks into the Library, they will be reminded of the great antiquity that undergirds this ultra-modern cyberpunk city.
Of course, the ultra-modern is ever present, too: Whole walls and entire rooms are just panels of screens with softly lit, sometimes-scrolling words.
The Library is the root of all information of the written variety. All languages begin here, all syllables.
The books sit within their glass cases, or they exist on the screens, or the words can be heard in one's mind. All the speeds, all the cadences, all the page types.
Everything within the Library is customizable to whatever an Otherworlder sees as the perfect ambience of a Book, or a Word, mystical or technologically innovative.
The future and the past meet eternally here.
The Librarian: All within my realm is attuned to the algorithms which I design.
The past... the future... they are nothing to me, or all the same. Strings one might entwine about the fingers. For me, there is only the Library.
Well, what can I do for you, Otherworlders? What knowledge do you seek, and what the form thereof?
The past... the future... they are nothing to me, or all the same. Strings one might entwine about the fingers. For me, there is only the Library.
Well, what can I do for you, Otherworlders? What knowledge do you seek, and what the form thereof?
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A scroll appears and it/they(?) unfurl it:
The information requested concerns another cosmology from that of the dominant native one in Magisteria. "Holy water" as you describe it is utterly meaningless within this world.
However, to your broader question, there are equivalent forms of magic that oppose the undead and/or demons or other associated dark forces. Don't count yourself too comfortable; all must adapt to the milieu and cosmology of this world. While the rules of your own world may guide your adaptation, do not lean too heavily on the assurances of what you have always known or thought you knew.
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"Though, really, the Luminaries created it to fight far more frightening things than demons..." the Librarian will say, trailing off (though it/they encourage Crowley to look up books on the subject, should he wish to know more)
After all, like the ladies in the Entertainment District said, most demons nowadays are respectable citizens of Magisteria... though maybe in the older days, there were more tensions amongst the races. But that could be said of the others too -- faeries and other creatures. With so many races of beings constantly arriving in Magisteria, there were bound to be some ideological differences, but nowadays... co-existence was mostly fine/possible.
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"Hello there!" He says beaming as the entity approached. "How many records of Magisteria's history do you have on file and how accessible are they to the general public?"
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"Okay. I can't go through all of that. Can you point me to the start of Magisteria's first recorded history of up until the establishment to its first form of government. From there, I'd like the records of pivotal government changes from changes in policy, form, or death of a major figure, or other similarly violent or drastic external factors." The start of any civilization says a lot about how the populace grows, but its when the goverment or monarch gets rocked that really shapes them.