# General Select Settlement: Select Category: Philosophy *An ancient half-buried library outside the walls of [[2-World/Hubs/Zahrimar.md|Zahrimar]]* Outside Zahrimar's walls, half-swallowed by a dune, stand the domes of a library older than the city. Its lower floors have been under the sand for centuries; its upper floors are kept by a small order of librarians who dig out a few more shelves every year and copy what they find. The library holds books in languages nobody speaks any more, maps of a desert that was once green, and records of the empire whose towers stick out of the dunes in the Sunscar. Scholars, treasure hunters and the desperate come here looking for answers. The librarians help anyone who is polite and pays. # NPCs The following people are associated with this place. # Selling Copies of maps and texts, made by the librarians. # Buying Old books, scrolls and ruin finds. # Services | Service | Cost | Notes | | --- | --- | --- | | A day's reading | 1 gp | Under supervision | | Translation | 10 gp per page | Dead languages cost more | | A copied map | 5–25 gp | | # Rumours - "The librarians dig deeper every year. Some say they're not looking for books." - "A halfling tore a page out of a book here once. They still talk about it." # Image *No image yet.*