"This realm is near the labyrinth, and both be reached from each other. It is an infinite library, containing every book, both written and unwritten. Endless alleys of bookshelves, filled to the brim with books, old and new, big and small, fact and fiction. The air is dry and filled with the smell of dusty bindings. Here and there small reading-tables are placed, often covered with piles of books. Pulpits, with chained rarities flank galleries and archives filled with documents stretch towards eternity. The floor is covered with a soft carpet, dampening all sounds. It is very silent, and sounds seem to fade away quickly.
The books range from the cheapest pulp to ancient and extremely powerful magickal tomes. In the shelves decaying scrolls filled with hieroglyphics lie side by side with modern encyclopaedias and clay tablets. The system the books are ordered after is extremely odd, and while all books in the same shelf may have something in common, it is seldom easy to understand. One shelf may be filled with books involving beekeeping, however obliquely. Another may contain maps, regardless of what they are maps of. Another may contain only books with 343 pages. Finding the book you want is a nightmare, and can take years. And there are also false books, books looking like the sought but containing subtle errors or falsehoods, blank pages or something altogether different.
Anyone may borrow books here freely, but he must return them. If the book have not been returned after a reasonable time, the Library turns against him. Exactly what happens is not known, since most such persons have simply vanished. The few that remain refuse to talk about it, and it may be noted that they have returned their books. Some mages travel into the Library to browse or to find a particular tome. This is dangerous, since many mages have been overwhelmed by their thirst for knowledge and never left the realm. Many have become Librarians or died within the Library.
The Librarians are quit, slightly myopic persons who keep the Library neat and tidy, sort the books and try to catalogue them. They are a fairly rare sight, but often very helpful if the helpseeker can stand their peculiarities. Many of them seems to be more than a little otherworldly, and sometimes drift off into interesting research or pressing duties. They tend to be irritated by loud noises, disorder or anything that threatens their dear books.
The Library stretches into the physical world at many places and times in large libraries, used bookstores or collections. All sufficiently large collections of books, especially magickal books, tend to get close to the Library. Many chantry libraries connect to the Library. Most of the time these portals are impossible to find or just one way out from the Library, but sometimes they open spontaneously or because somebody seeking a book has accidentally found their way out. Some chantries have developed permanent portals into this realm, but most mages are suspicious of it. They have the feeling the Library is expanding into their libraries, and will slowly engulf them."