The Library
The Library of Sarah Voss is a human-made structure erected in the ash wastes of the former North American Midwest following the total destruction of the world during the Great Cataclysm. The Library was begun by Sarah Voss herself, who found a small standing building and established it as a place of temporary shelter. However, while she was staying there, she found that she was not subjected to attacks by hostile groups of survivors due to being outside their territory, as well as being sheltered from deadly ash storms and natural calamities due to the restrictive geography surrounding her. Quickly recognizing the value of such a protected location, she began expanding it in order to house surviving books that she had begun collecting from the surrounding territory, as well as her own writings on parchment, tablet, and stone. In time, as she began to attract other survivors and develop her philosophy of human survival, Voss began expanding the library and it became a permenant structure, one of the largest and most intricate in the world since the arrival of the Ash Gods. In time, the Library became a landmark of human resilience and the potential of mankind to live on despite the horrific situation of the new world. Voss gathered hundreds to her oasis and it was there that she came to write the document known as the Ashrain Manifesto, calling for the reunification of humanity and the reestablishment of a civilized society beneath the ash cloud. Ultimately, the Library became one of the earliest human settlements of Ashrain, and one of the largest in the years preceding the devastation of the epidemic known as the Searing Plague.
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