Welcome. You have entered the Library of the Keeper of Knowledge in the Fantasy Forest.

My belief is that with knowledge comes understanding, and that understanding leads to tolerance and therefore peace.

I've found a long searched-for home in the Fantasy Forest, where peace and balance reign under the benign rulership of our Queen and her King, and I've opened my library to repay them for their kindness in giving me a home.

To introduce myself properly, I am Aurelia Eliana, a book fairy. Born of a Dryad and a Faery, I found myself unable to leave the prescence of life sustaining trees to live among my father's faery folk, yet also unable to live within the trees as did my mother's people. I led a lonely and unhappy life until a wandering minstrel gifted me with this book with which to record my thoughts and my life.

It fascinated me, this idea of reading and writing, and I found that I wished more of these books. I began seeking out those traveling through my mother's wood, and trading them knowledge of the ways and routes therein for knowledge of a different kind; that contained in books.

In time, I realized that being out of doors was perhaps better for me than for my treasures. Though I lacked the ability to live within the trees as I had always longed to do, the younger trees; those who had yet no dryads to live within them; they were my friends. With pleading, and many promises of the many cares that young trees rely on, they allowed me to train their branches into a roof for my Library.

In these many years since that first minstrel gifted me with the knowledge of the written word, my young friends have grown tall and wide and thick. Though they have dryads of their own now, they have never forgotten their promise to me, and their lower branches have grown so close and intertwined that no weather may enter my library.

It is at this point in my story that I was invited to live within the peace of the Fantasy Forest. Using the magic gifted to me by my father's blood, I moved my Library and all of it's attendant trees and their beloved Dryads to my new home. My dryad kin are a reclusive people, and rarely leave the shelter of their trees and my library, but I find that they are a welcome reminder of the home that I left. For I find that, as much as I do love this forest, the unhappy memories of my youth fade as I grow further from them, and I find myself remembering only those times that I was happy.

I have secured the affection of many young trees in this forest by the same methods I have always used, though these are more important here, as Dryads are few, and have much work to do, and new additions to my library are always growing. At times, i find myself hard pressed to fill them all with books.

Yet, of late, travelers will seek me out to make use of my books, and most will leave a book or two behind as a gift, so I am not forced to spend so much time searching for them as I was wont to do among my mother's great wood. I find that scholars are not so loath to travel through this forest as others, for it is peaceful here, and there is little danger of harm coming to them.

To conclude my tale, for this moment, I wish you the peace that encompasess the whole of my mother's people, and the long life that follows those of my father.

Aurelia Eliana, keeper of knowlege.