Dungeon23 - Day 11

S11. Manor House - Library

The upstairs library contains wall-to-wall book shelves over flowing with old volumes and tomes. The books cover all manner of subjects from the seemingly mundane 100 Uses for Swim Bladders to historical texts like The Seventh Siege of Stormhold. The book shelf along the eastern wall contains a secret. A small book, located on the very bottom shelf titled The Many Eccentricities of Cornelius Cramblepot, is actually a switch that causes the book shelf to swing open revealing a smaller, secret library. All of the books here are rare and valuable tomes. Among them is a text titled The Bones of our City and The Temple of the Elements.

Offset above the first floor:


The entire city to date:

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