Ravencroft Library (in Ebar)

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The Library of Ravencroft was charged with collecting all the world's knowledge, and most of the staff was occupied with the task of translating works from papyrus paper into books. It did so through an aggressive and well-funded royal mandate involving trips to far away places and doungeons alike, books were also taken off of every ship that came into port,and were listed as "books of the ships".Official scribes then swiftly copied these writings, some copies proving so precise that the originals were put into the library, and the copies delivered to the unsuspecting owners. This process also helped to create a reservoir of books in the relatively new city.

It is now impossible to determine the collection's size in any era with any certainty. Papyrus scrolls comprised the collection, and although codices were used before the founding of Lore, the Ravencroft Library is never documented as having switched to parchment, perhaps because of its strong links to the papyrus trade. (The Library of Ravencroft in fact had an indirect cause in the creation of writing parchment — due to the library's critical need for papyrus, little was exported and thus an alternate source of copy material became essential.)

A single piece of writing might occupy several scrolls, and this division into self-contained "books" was a major aspect of editorial work. Queen Sephia is said to have set 500,000 scrolls into the care of the library. Not many know with certainty how large and how diverse the collection my be. For example, it is likely that even if the Library of Ravencroft had hundreds of thousands of scrolls (and thus perhaps tens of thousands of individual works), some of these would have been duplicate copies or alternate versions of the same texts.

The library has many secret floors underneath the building it self call the labyrinth, for it is a maze of bookshelves and gaurded by monster and only the librarians seekers are granted permission to enter the maze of books.