Player reference / Strongholds, Settlements and Realms
Description and lore
Dry shelves and a quiet reading table protect the books, maps and records gathered here.
A library gains identity from what people have chosen to keep. A weathered route map or a copied commission may be more useful than a wall of unrelated volumes.
The source of a record matters. Marginal notes, missing pages and careful cataloguing give researchers something concrete to examine without making the collection know everything.
At a glance
Dry shelves and a quiet reading table protect the books, maps and records gathered here.
Strongholds, Settlements and Realms · Alpha v44 reference
An answer may already exist, if someone kept a record of it.
Requires: A dry quiet room; books, maps or records with an established subject and origin.
Construction: 12 suitable Common resources (120g); 2 Workdays, or 170g expected installed value; 2 G maintenance per 30 days.
Effect: Stores and makes supplied records accessible to four researchers. Obvious information is available without a roll; Cunning resolves a consequential uncertain search using the relevant source and normal TN or concealment. A purchased book contains only its stated contents. It does not teach a Technique automatically, invent absent lore or make forbidden information universally available.
A page whispers against the table; one map has been unfolded far more often than the rest.