Having politely accepted Turi's gold in Nethys' name, the curator brings the group to the Great Chamber of Knowledge, beyond the archway at the end of the Processional of Learning. The Great Chamber is breathtaking to behold, a vast, pillared hall soaring upward to a great dome overhead, an airy vastness appropriately painted with stars and clouds. A ring of columns runs around the perimeter, supporting a gallery at the base of the dome. Countless shelves divide the chamber, rising so high that ladders are needed to climb them. These shelves are in turn separated by a bewildering variety of boxes, cabinets, cases, and chests. Littered among these towers of knowledge are benches, reading tables, huge desks for spreading maps, and elaborate displays. The flickering light of lamps and lanterns mingle throughout the space.

At the far end of the Great Chamber of Knowledge, it is impossible to miss an immense, circular bronze door that rises amid a wall of huge limestone blocks. A single hieroglyph of an eye engraved in the center is the door’s only feature. A dozen paces in front of it stands an effigy made out of iron, some nine feet tall, vaguely resembling an obese pharaoh.

Looking upwards, the companions note the vaulted dome of the library, rising like the heavens above the floor of the main chamber. A broad balcony circles the base of the dome, lined with shelves and piles of books that loom like cliffs on the brink of collapse. A jumbling array of ladders climb to these teetering shelves, propped against the stacks, hung from ledges, dangling from wires overhanging the library far below, or fashioned from spikes hammered into the walls.

"What you're looking for is likely somewhere in the Outer Stacks", the curator says. "Beware the ladders, they are quite unstable."

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Following up research in the Upper Stacks requires a DC10 Climb check.