Havre Public Library

A grand, white-fronted Georgian building, Havre Public Library was built not long after the city was founded in keeping with the mood of hope and enlightenment that the city enjoyed at the time. However, while many such buildings have since fallen into disuse, Havre Public Library has remained the glistening bastion of illumination that it was when it was built nearly two hundred years ago.

Resting just inside the Fountain District of the city, the library is a sprawling building with labyrinthine corridors and something different around every corner. Over the last twenty years, the building has undergone something of a renovation of purpose. Today, parts of the building are indeed the Public Library, with different rooms to house fiction, non-fiction and children's books, as well as half a dozen different reading rooms decorated with paintings by local artists and prints of the great classics among posters advertising the latest evening class or reading group and the tastefully polished wood. Other parts of the library have come to serve as a community centre, with classes in languages, computing and arts and crafts going on at various points during the week, and the back rooms of the library have come to become a museum of sorts, with a private collection of rare books, as well as prized Egyptian manuscripts and artifacts accessible under supervision. The building is filled with large, airy rooms filled with the smell of polished wood, dusty and twisting corridors still clad in its original stone, and smaller, more modern rooms filled with computers, half-finished paintings and pottery wheels.

Responsible for the day-to-day running of the library is the librarian Margarite Olson, while the collection of artifacts and manuscripts, along with many of the evening classes, are the responsibility of the respected Egyptologist Asarte at Amen. Both of these women are well known among both mortal and eldritch circles, and the two of them have been firm friends for as long as any one can remember.