Libraries of Faerie

Libraries of Faerie

Depositories That Never Were

The wind library

An entire canyon carved from solid stone, filled with whistling holes and fantastic whorls. A wind blows constantly through. Different sounds are made in different parts of the canyon by the wind whistling through the channels. If you walk through certain parts in a certain path at a certain speed, the changing sounds seem like voices, reading passages of books to you.

The Sleeper's Library

It is said that those minds are troubled over-much with the desire to learn, or the desire to know --and the two are different -- or the desire to create are given a change, a choice, at one single point in their life.

For some, this choice comes late in life, for others, while they are still infants.

This choice comes, fittingly, in their sleep.

The Librarian comes to them, in whatever form they expect the Librarian to take, and offers them this choice: come to the Library in their dreams, join the Library, and never again dream like a mortal, and never again have their mind be truly and completely their own... or don't.

In the countless ocean of time that has passed, none that the Librarian has given this choice to have denied the Library.

Once someone has chosen the Sleeper's Library, every night, in their sleep, they dream of a vast and endless library, with countless, impossibly large halls, and tiny, intimate studies.

Every book ever written can be found in this Sleeper's Library, and every book that someone within the Library has ever thought of writing can be found within the Library.

In fact, every thought a member of the Library ever has becomes part of the Library, written in some book, or scroll, for every other member of the Sleeper's Library to see, should they happen upon it.

Few members of the Library; however, know the architecture of the Sleeper's Library well enough to reliably seek out the thought-records of their fellows.