Edificant Library

The Edificant Library is a library located in the south of the Snowflake Mountains. It stood for over 600 years.

Architecture
The building is an old, ivy-veiled stone structure strongly reflecting a fortress. The huge building is more than 400 feet across and 200 feet deep. It consists of four above-ground levels and is suspected to have an unknown expand of storage tunnels and catacombs beneath. The first floor contains the library proper with unnumbered collections of mostly unique and ancient books, parchments and artifacts. The second floor contains smaller study chambers and guest rooms for visiting scholars.

It is build as self-contained town, housing for example guest quarters, a large eating hall, stables and also alchemy and herbalist shops.

Dedication
The Library was erected as a tribute to Deneir and Oghma, the allied gods of knowledge, literature and art.

Visitors
The Edificant Library is open to all who wish to learn on the condition that they do not plan to use their knowledge for baneful purposes. Thus no scholars of evil religions are allowed entry to the Library. Followers of Gond are not well looked upon either, for they often strive for knowledge indifferently of its evil nature. The Library is a place for study, poetry reading, painting, sculpting and a place for discussion of all kinds of unanswerable questions.

Religion
The Library is convenient to the west-central realms and Cormyr region.

Inhabitants
Inhabitans of certain reputation are:
 * Cadderly Bonaduce
 * Danica Maupoissant
 * Pikel Bouldershoulder
 * Ivan Bouldershoulder
 * Kierkan Rufo
 * Pertelope
 * Avery Schell
 * Brother Chaunticlair

History
The Chaos Curse was the downfall of the library.

In the wrath of Kierkan Rufo's assault on the Library, every priest and headmaster died - either at the hands of Kierkan Rufo as the embodiment of the Chaos Curse, being then transformed into zombies, or by giving into the dark promises of being a vampire at Rufo's side, finally being put to eternal rest by Cadderly Bonaduce.

All priests were affected by Kierkan Rufo, except Vicero Belago, the library's alchemist who was sent away from the Library by Dean Thobicus long before Rufo desecrated the holy place, and Brother Chaunticlair, whose melodies to the patron deities warded him against the evil that befall the library, his room being the only place of the building that had not been desecrated - leaving him half starved and his white hair whitened from the the terror he had endured until Cadderly Bonaduce and his friends finally killed Rufo.

Cadderly Bonaduce finally destroyed the desecrated building with the help of his god-given powers, wiping the Edificant Library from the landscape. Then, again with the help of Deneir, Cadderly started to construct a new cathedral in the labrary's stead, the Spirit Soaring.

Apperances

 * The Cleric Quintet
 * Canticle
 * In Sylvan Shadows
 * Night Masks
 * The Fallen Fortress
 * The Chaos Curse