 Imatia
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| Title: | God of Knowledge and Learning
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| Location: | Alharth
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| Classification: | Class ?
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Lore
The Gods of Knowledge, Vol 1
“Who she is: We'll start with the one everybody in the Crone Hegemony's familiar with. Imatia's Libraries are vast repositories of knowledge, gathered up from around the world and kept safe. The Crone Hegemony is a land where knowledge can get you killed, and large libraries don't tend to survive there for very long. But Imatia's Libraries are protected by her monks. And even if the Monks fail to stop an attacker, the library just leaves. Each library has roughly the same shape: an ivory tower, tall as the sky. One day it appears, a week later it's gone.
What she knows and how to find her: Imatia is the world's librarian. If you knowledge you seek is written in a book, there's a good chance that the book is in one of Imatia's seven ivory towers. But it may take some time to find it. Each tower has its own collection of rare books, found all over the world by Imatia's monks.
If your cause is 'pure and sound' -- code words for 'something Imatia approves of' -- you could enter a library yourself, if you happened to find one. But when a library moves, only a monk can find it. Finding a monk is relatively easy, however: just seek out the libraries and booksellers of the world, make it known that you seek a monk, and that you can pay. A monk will find you.
Be cautious! The monks are librarians, but they are also deadly warriors, armed with godly weapons and protections. Violence is highly discouraged. And luckily for your, it shouldn't be necessary: the monks work for pay. Their fees are spent on new volumes to add to their tower. Expect to pay a high price! While common books can be obtained for small fees, you no doubt need a rare book. Searching for a very rare volume could cost tens of millions of coins -- and there is still no guarantee that they can find it. Imatia's libraries are vast beyond belief, but they still only hold a fraction of the universe's knowledge.