D&D 5E Post your pictures of your favorite Libraries here! (Candlekeep inspiration)

[Zio_the_dark]

This one from France

 

[Eyes of Nine]

There's a house for sale in my area that for some reason seems as though one would find a mysterious tome or adventure therein:

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I see myself in this picture, and I'm not sure I like it (ok, I love it)

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Going a different direction, here. But I think libraries with these are pretty cool. The one I know of is a storage for decades of science journals in tiny physical space.


There are new electronic ones with all sorts of safety features, or old mechanical ones that you could use to kill any unsuspecting scholar.

Oh, I like the idea of a library with things like this, but magically powered. Or even when all the big shelving units are together, and then you take out some books and shelves in the middle and you have a sweet hiding place surrounded by books.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

You still not going to tell us where these pictures are from?

Ah, I didn't understand your first message.
I actually have no idea where they are from. Let me do a quick duckduckgo search.

I think the 2nd one is the Abbey Library of Saint Gallen in Switzerland.
The first one I can't find again...

 

[TheSword]

As a professional librarian, I do not have the fantastical view of them that many do. To me they are not mystical repositories or darkened fonts of knowledge. They are government buildings, like a Parks and Rec office. They are not mysterious. They are full of children playing, adults completing job applications, little old ladies getting romance novels.
The theme of Candlekeep is an instant mood killer for me. It's like having the adventurers be postal carriers.

I’m getting flashbacks to Ron Swansons wife in Parks and Recreation.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

In my homebrew, the library of Hiir has a section that's just a balcony jutting out into a open space, from which the shelf with the book needed is summoned where it is presumably neatly stacked, though none of the PCs have ever actually seen where they're kept. It's probably in fact extradimensional space, but I haven't really defined that part yet.

Oh, I like the idea of a library with things like this, but magically powered. Or even when all the big shelving units are together, and then you take out some books and shelves in the middle and you have a sweet hiding place surrounded by books.

 

[darjr]

 

[Eyes of Nine]

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That's like the library in the comic series Fables, where the librarian is one of the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz

 

[prabe]

That's like the library in the comic series Fables, where the librarian is one of the winged monkeys from the Wizard of Oz

I'm pretty sure it's the library at the Unseen University, in Ankh-Morporkh, on Discworld.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I'm pretty sure it's the library at the Unseen University, in Ankh-Morporkh, on Discworld.

Ah, you are right. Forgot about that one...