Mummy's Mask - Shifting Sands [IC]

[Gwynfrid]

Having enjoyed the best, most leisurely lunch they've had in a long time, the Relic Knights eventually make for the Old City. "The library opens at mid-morning and remains open until the sun sets," the volubile Sabef explains along the way. "If it is knowledge you seek, surely there is no better place!"

Looming over the Great Plaza, the high blue dome of Tephu's Great Library, topped with shining gold pinnacles, towers over the surrounding buildings. Huge columns rise from immense footings along the edifice's sheer walls. Enormous bronze doors, etched with the images of rampant sphinxes, lead into the library's interior. Four bored-looking library guards stand watch in front of the doors, letting the visitors enter without comment.

Once inside, the companions find themselves in a cavernous entrance hall. Statues of enigmatic sphinxes sit in each corner of the room, their gazes an impossible mixture of pleasure and defiance. Archways in three walls open into larger spaces, the chambers beyond drowning in books, ledgers, librams, scrolls, clay tablets, tomes, and other more obscure forms of record, held in countless shelves and cabinets. The smell of old books is almost overpowering...

Two library curators sit behind a large, ornate desk, lit by a magnificent lantern seemingly made of water, in the center of the hall.

Spoiler: Library curator

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