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<blockquote data-quote="ArghMark" data-source="post: 4873886" data-attributes="member: 83266"><p>Keeper</p><p></p><p>The Archive</p><p></p><p>Not so much an individual being as a place, The Archive is a moldering bookshop that is always larger on the inside than the outside. From the outside, the rather normal-seeming shop is close to Arcadia but still technically in the Hedge, and is never guarded. </p><p></p><p>Changelings sold to or taken by The Archive always think 'This isn't too bad.' They enter the store and browse the old books for a while. Then, eventually, they lose sight of the door. That is when The Archive begins its process; for in fact, every tome on the inside was once a human, its very soul having gone through the great press in the very depths of The Archive. </p><p></p><p>Many people enter, and begin to read the books. All of the books are odd autobiographies of the people who had come before; but anyone who has been turned into a book always lead inexorably to The Press; they talk about their lives, their own quests in The Archive, and eventually they all go to The Press. Curiosity, especially academic curiosity, always leads to The Press. Then, when they find themselves being fed to the great machine, their own lives are printed upon their living skin and their souls are sewn into the binding, they find nothing quite so interesting and curious as their own lives; endless writing and rewriting of greater and more subtle choices that in their lives they had made. However much of their human lives have been lost, so they write mainly of their time in The Archive. </p><p></p><p>A great deal of information is stored in The Archive; the problem is getting to it and getting out again. </p><p></p><p>The Archive has its staff and its riffraff, being talking insects or the strange Librarians that drift between the shelves. Some Elementals may be bound into large desks or chairs or even shelves. For the most part, Darklings come from this shadowy and dusty place, and mainly Antiquarians.</p><p></p><p>Sometimes the books begin to remember that instead of dry analysis, new data may be required. Some remember their own histories. Some simply grow bored. But as their awareness of their surroundings broadens, they find humanity returning; arms, legs, even their shape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArghMark, post: 4873886, member: 83266"] Keeper The Archive Not so much an individual being as a place, The Archive is a moldering bookshop that is always larger on the inside than the outside. From the outside, the rather normal-seeming shop is close to Arcadia but still technically in the Hedge, and is never guarded. Changelings sold to or taken by The Archive always think 'This isn't too bad.' They enter the store and browse the old books for a while. Then, eventually, they lose sight of the door. That is when The Archive begins its process; for in fact, every tome on the inside was once a human, its very soul having gone through the great press in the very depths of The Archive. Many people enter, and begin to read the books. All of the books are odd autobiographies of the people who had come before; but anyone who has been turned into a book always lead inexorably to The Press; they talk about their lives, their own quests in The Archive, and eventually they all go to The Press. Curiosity, especially academic curiosity, always leads to The Press. Then, when they find themselves being fed to the great machine, their own lives are printed upon their living skin and their souls are sewn into the binding, they find nothing quite so interesting and curious as their own lives; endless writing and rewriting of greater and more subtle choices that in their lives they had made. However much of their human lives have been lost, so they write mainly of their time in The Archive. A great deal of information is stored in The Archive; the problem is getting to it and getting out again. The Archive has its staff and its riffraff, being talking insects or the strange Librarians that drift between the shelves. Some Elementals may be bound into large desks or chairs or even shelves. For the most part, Darklings come from this shadowy and dusty place, and mainly Antiquarians. Sometimes the books begin to remember that instead of dry analysis, new data may be required. Some remember their own histories. Some simply grow bored. But as their awareness of their surroundings broadens, they find humanity returning; arms, legs, even their shape. [/QUOTE]
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