Lost Library



The Lost Library appeared as a large spike on the horizon of the Shadowlands, a tall tower of black stone, rough and jagged to the touch. Lining the inside walls were curved shelves stuffed with crumbling tomes and ancient scrolls. The original collector was unknown, were they sorcerer, demon, or being as old and alien as the tower itself. The tower had no visible entrances, but it haf windows high up the walls, just below the roofline. The uneven walls were climbable, with a tangle of lurid green brambles growing around its base. Tunnels below the tower led to a hidden entrance, home to vermin and small Shadowlands creatures.

Within the Tower
Within the tower, the walls were lined with books, scrolls, and piles of parchment. Items often fell from the shelves as if leaping for attention, landing with pages open to particularly corrupting passages. Whether possessed by kansen or somehow animated by the power of the words within, some of the books in the Lost Library seemed to have achieved something akin to sentience. Their only goal seemed to be to share their knowledge, either by compelling a visitor to read them or by escaping to find unsuspecting readers elsewhere.