The LibraryHouse Liam is known for many things, one of the better traits often mentioned is their expertise at chronicling, lore, and assembling fine libraries. The Viscount, despite his whimsical ways, is no exception.
By taking one particular set of stairs from the Fairy's Wheel's heart down, one finds oneself in Jude's library. No fae is denied entrance to it, but making heads or tails of it is a logistical nightmare. Not only are there hundreds of books; There seems to be no rhyme or reason to their ordering. Dr. Seuss's works are intermixed with religous texts. A playboy magazine is sandwiched in between two books on philosphy. A map of the Freehold itself can be found laying on a desk.
Jude of course, can point whatever book you want or need (assuming he has it) without missing a beat. It's possible he's created some indexing system solely for the purpose of vexing others.
Some of the more notable books are:
- Bare but not Broken
- This blue and silver book with Liam insignia upon it has much lore on House Liam, including a tale of its fall. It also contains its basic tenents, and some mention of its rituals, oaths, and workings. Some other Houses believe Liam has no written history bound in one work; this is quite untrue. Sadly, many of those books are destroyed by other Houses, in much the same fashion as Liam's blazon being stricken from records for its Oathbroken status.
- Trees at War
- Written by the esteemed Baron Edgewick of House Gwydion, this book covers the "War of the Trees" from long before the shattering, as best can be recollected by his House's greatest "Rememberers", various Bards of all factions, and what few scraps of written word that survived. The reading is a bit dusty, but Edgewick manages to keep a sense of seperation between personal conjecture, and what is known.
- Noblisse O'Bastards: A Nocker's Guide to Types of Elves
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A scathing but brilliant work by the now late Garfunkin Inkfingers, who in his Grump years, decided to learn all he could about the sidhe Houses, in hope that it would actually make the @##$ing nobles easier to understand. Caution, sidhe may not like some of the candidness regarding their own House, though it can be insightful to have a commoner's view. An addendum by one of his descendents is being sought to make commentary on the 'new/lost' Houses.
- Aurora-Freedom's Shield
- New scrolls hold the record of the fall of Aurora Oliver, late Duchess of Twin Hills. While she ruled for a short time, there is no denying her heroism.
- Duchy of the Twin Hills: Trod, Hold, and Road Atlas
- If taken out of the hold, this would look to mortal eyes like a battered road atlas or guide. Several pages are torn out and missing. To Fae, it's a bit better, but the map is still kind of smudgey.
- Laws of Twin Hills Duchy
- This thin book holds in between it's black covers with gold lettering, the laws of the land. Going beyond merely the Escheat, this is what makes Twin Hills different from lands where Tyrants rule.
Many other works can be found through out the library, particularly in areas of fae and human history.
Go on up to the Fairy's Wheel
or
walk on through to the main park...
