Fastandia

A mysterious mage who used to frequent the halls of the Bibliopolis until her supposed death two years ago. She bequeathed a portion of her personal library to the Bibliopolis in her will, and these books now reside mostly in the Erudite Bastion.
Fellow scholars have little to say on her, as it seemed she kept her life and studies quite private. But as Procella and her friends have explored the libraries, they have uncovered hidden caches of sinister knowledge and experiments:
Fastandia's Mansion is a secret extradimensional dwelling that hides concealed libraries on such topics as life extension, soul manipulation, and the creation of various forms of artificial life. A hidden basement houses an alchemy lab with experimental homunculi, a fiend summoning circle, and many dangerous and aberrant creatures preserved in fluids. See The Joy of Extradimensional Spaces for more details.
Another of Fastandia's hidden workshops contained scores of dolls and mannequins, which had been subject to iterative experiments to imbue them with life. Some of them had sinister powers of soul transference, and the blood and flesh that served as spell reagents came from people imprisoned in squalor, now long dead. See The Dollmaker's Attic for more details.