The Biblioplex

Biblioplex Architecture

The Biblioplex, much like most of the central campus, is constructed out of pristine white stone and marble with dark-blue tiles for its roof. Large, arched windows cover the walls, allowing for lots of natural light to pass through into its interior, and all wooden surfaces are polished to a mirror finish.

Biblioplex Features

• Ceilings. The ceilings throughout the first floor are 50 feet high. The second and third-floor ceilings are 30 feet high.
• Magic Stairs. As in all Faerndaar buildings, the stairs and steps leading into and within the Biblioplex are enchanted to move and reshape for full accessibility.
• Transport Circles. A runic circle is painted on the floor near each staircase in the Biblioplex, as well as at the top and bottom of the steps leading to the main entrance. These circles are permanent, customised teleportation circles. When a user moves onto a circle and mentally focuses on the floor to which they wish to travel, they are transported to the destination floor, arriving at eh runic circle for that staircase. The circle at the bottom of the front steps transports users to the circle at the top of the steps and vice versa.

Locations

B1. Main Entrance

Enchanted, marble steps lead up 5 feet to a small plaza at the Biblioplex's entrance. The double door's verticle handles are each carved into the likeness of a robed scholar. During the day, the doors stand open. At night, the doors are closed, locked, and sealed with an arcane lock spell. Only the archivist and certain faculty members know the arcane lock's password.

B2. Biblioplex Lounge

Luxurious couches and sturdy tables furnish this spacious area. Students, employees and staff members often use this lounge to relax between shifts in the student store, the Biblioplex café, or elsewhere in the library.

B3. Student Café Seating

The are typically hold two dozen students, all of them studying, eating, chatting, or even seeping. Many enjoy food and drink from the café.

B4. Information Desk

Three librarians work at each of these circular desks. Many of these are current or past students and are well-versed in the cataloguing system used at the library. They can provide helpful instruction for where to find any public location or collection in the Biblioplex.

B5. Student Store

This small shop is stocked with books, equipment, and gear useful as academic supplies. Students can buy hats, scarfs, tunics, robes, gloves, and other apparel embroidered with the Faerndaar logo, or with the sigil of any of its colleges. Costs range from 5CP to 5GP, depending on the item. In addition to nonmagical gear and clothing, the store also contains the following magic items:

• Cuddly Strixhaven Mascot, 100GP
• Faerndaar Pendant, 100GP
• Lorehold Primer, 300GP
• Prismari Primer, 300GP
• Quandrix Primer, 300GP
• Silverquill Primer, 300GP
• Witherbloom Primer, 300GP
• 1st-level Spell Scroll, 50GP
• Weapon +1, 300GP

B6. Biblioplex Café

One wall of this area is covered with a mural made from a living tree's roots, which move occasionally and make the entire place feel alive. The ceiling is covered in painted leaves, which change colours depending on the season thanks to a permanent illusion effect. The magic also prompts squirrels to run up and down the mural's roots, and painted birds to chirp among the leaves. The café always serves coffee and tea, which costs 1CP per cup. They also sell a magic item known as a Bottle of Boundless Coffee, costing 100GP. The sandwich of the day varies, and is chosen from the following:

• Grilled Haloumi with morels on wheat
• Toasted cockatrice gizzards on rye
• Open-faced radish chips, deep-fried with dijon
• Crunchy frogs legs on toast
• Rainbow carrots and watercress chestnuts on white
• Dragonbreath peppers and salami on a bagel

B7. Lecture Hall

Each of these halls hosts first-year lectures for Faerndaar students. The seats magically grow or shrink to comfortably accommodate students of any size or body type. The halls' acoustics are magically enhanced to amplify the professor's lecture and minimise the disruption of side conversations.

B8. Study Area

These open study areas feature simple, wooden tables and chairs, comfortably accommodating over three-dozen students at any given time.

B9. Book Garden

In these quiet areas, students sit on the grass and study among the lush foliage. A number of awakened shrubs also make their home here. Members of Witherbloom College typically tend to this space.

B10. Main Stacks

Floor to ceiling bookshelves fill the center and the east end of of the library's first floor, with the denser east stacks under a magic effect that shifts them when students approach, creating space to stand single-file. These books are mostly introductory texts, and first-year students are often directed here by their professors. In each of these areas, two cogwork archivists busily shelve returned or misfiled books.

B11. Hall of Oracles

This hallowed hall is filled with statues of the university's past Oracles. At the center of the hall, a pulsing ball of magical energy - the Faerndaar Snarl - fills the area with bright light.

B12. Student and Alumni Art Gallery

This crisp-looking room features white walls and columns that stretch from floor to ceiling. Displayed on or within these are art pieces representative of various media. Students from Prismari College typically tend to this space. A storage area at the back holds supplies and artwork waiting to go on display.

B13. Amphitheater

This impressive stage is used for lectures, for assemblies, and as a gathering places in case of emergencies. Magic steps lead up to the stage from the floor of the library.

B14. Student Activities Center

This room is filled with tables and chairs and is available to any student organisation registered with Faerndaar for use as a meeting lace, rehearsal facility, or crafting site, or for other approved purposes.

B15. Student Council Hall

Filled with wooden tables and benches, this room has a flag displaying the Faerndaar logo hanging on tis back wall. Here, a student council publicly debates Faerndaar policies what most affect the student body. The leaders of the school's extra-curriculars come to the council to conduct matters of business, and the council usually meet on the first day of each month. Outside those meetings, the room is used for other official university business or stands empty.

B16. Advanced Student Stacks

Rooms on the Biblioplex's second floor can be accessed only with keys held by faculty members, or that the librarians grant students on a case-by-case basis. Typically, students don't gain access to these stacks until their 4th year at Faerndaar. The arcane knowledge in the books here is not public - and is sometimes dangerous. To prevent overly ambitious mages and outsiders from accessing this area, two shield guardians patrol at all times. The guardians have Sleep and Counterspell (each upcast to 4th-level) as their stored spell and their control amulets are in the procession of the archivist. Students with permission to work here are given passwords which by which the constructs recognise them as friends. This area also contains special bookcase with spell scrolls for all arcane spells from 4th to 8th level. They are sealed behind a wall of force and can only be access by a special key held by the archivist. These scrolls are available for study only and are not meant to be copied or cast. Special exceptions can be made, but require approval from the archmage.

B17. Advanced Student Office

These private offices are for students working in the advanced student stacks.

B18. Advanced Student Lounge

This rest area is designed to help stressed-out senior students unwind. Large tables are set up for gaming and shelves are filled with recreational reading material. The area can only be accessed through the advanced student stacks.

B19. The Compendium

This area on the library's third floor holds copies of most of the mundane, widely available written works in Concordia. The books are inscrutably catalogued, so it's almost impossible to find anything without requesting information from a librarian. At the center of this area is a statue depicting the silver dragon Ornthran, the Argent Storm. The magical statue reads aloud the contents of most books placed in front of it if someone makes that request verbally or mentally. The magic in the statue can assess text such as verbal curses that present a danger if read aloud, and the statue ignores requests to read such texts.

The Scriptoria Collections

This special, private study is located below the ground floor of the Biblioplex. It is decorated in contrast to the rest of the library, with wood paneling, rustic torch sconces and dark-toned walls. The spaces incredibly comfortable, filled with luxurious seating, multiple wide tables and polished bookshelves. The space is used by students and faculty researching complex topics who need to access a vast amount of texts quickly and easily. The bookshelves can conjure any and every books from across the library they are commanded (verbally or mentally) to do so. They can be filtered by subject, author, time period, or any specific combination of these parameters. Access to this space is open to all at the university, but it requires booking in advance. Books from the advanced student stacks are filtered out of conjured books for non-fourth-year students.

Maps

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  The Biblioplex

Type

Library

Parent Location

The Central Campus

Included Locations

• Korfel's Tower

Characters in Location

• Archivist Morg Flintbane
• Drazhomir Yarnask