A complex of glass and stone wraps around the hill beneath the palace. Inside the building and in its surrounding terrace gardens is the Library of the Gate, an archive and art gallery of epic size and scope. This institution is a major part of public Louvain life, and several small universities of history, art, and magic teach within its walls.
One could get lost for weeks between the library’s shelves; enthusiastic young scholars venture to Louvain to do just that. Some upper levels stretch around the city, over roads and between structures beneath it. Private tutors hold classes in open areas of the library, surrounded by greenery and bathed in sunlight from the skylights in the stone ceiling.
The underground levels are a cool, dry grid of stone tunnels. Closed-off sections contain secret tomes watched over by a special regiment of the Crown Guard known as the Rooks of Scrolls. Crews have made themselves friends of the crown by lending aid when the Dungeon has meddled with the lower archives. The luckiest are even allowed to peruse treasured volumes that expand the mind and body just by reading them.
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