I've been working on and off on the Grand Library to compile the Knowledge of DROD (with the help of a few others, namely 12th Archivist) and that Knowledge will be available on the website. However, I've also decided to first compile it up into a Grand Library hold and so far this is the layout I've replicated (with mrimer's authorization):
I'm missing a lot of it of course, so if you have any room (in any of the SMS where you go back to the library or something) and you take different rooms than what we've seen, I'd add them up to the layout. Alternatively, if there's no decided, full layout of the library, I can also make more onto it.
This post will eventually be edited with the hold itself as well.
For the time being, I decided to use the "
What is"
path to explain more about monster behavior (such as a section on roaches with a cross-reference section on roach queens) and most of that information is being compiled by 12th Archivist and fellow architects who know way more about them than I do.
That section will also contain a staircase to characters, which will separate between Abovegrounders and Empire citizens, then subseparate into Dead and Alive characters, and so on - You can travel from one to the other at will (there will be a crossroad), but by default the "
What is"
section will lead to the Alive characters and the "
What was"
section will lead to the Dead characters section.
Speaking of which, the "
What was"
path will be for the entirety of DROD's story, including the possibility of a floor image room for a timeline image, or maybe that will be in the actual corridors that will just branch off to specific events. I haven't fully decided on that yet, but considering that's all past canonical events, it makes sense to have a linear understanding of those events.
As for the "
What will be"
section, I don't exactly know what to put there, so for now, it's empty and will not be accessed even if I take it into account for the layout.
To top it off, I plan to have a world map or two to directly access sections if you don't like to navigate the giant library on your own. The world maps would be different floors of the library, two planned at present.
If you have any sort of Knowledge on events or monster lore, feel free to post it here with a source to confirm its authenticity and I can add it to the knowledge database of the hold (and the website as well eventually.)
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"
Imagination is more important than knowledge."
-Albert Einstein
