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The library of texts amassed largely by Eorl and The Danger Gang. It is currently maintained by Leo and Norro, based out of a spare room in the Governor's Mansion Inn at Chrysopolis. Leo also operates his think tank, Prometheus Unfound, out of the same room.

• The Apocalypse of Adam, in which Adam warns his son Seth, in the manner of apocalyptic literature, about a coming cataclysm that will destroy the world a few generations hence; this cataclysm is the Deluge.
• A collection of hymns to a god known as Theos Hypsistos, which combines Jewish and Greek imagery.
• The Marsanes, a mystic work describing an elaborate ascent through thirteen seals to the Silent One, known as ho ón: “He who is.”
• A bound collection of Platonic dialogues: Timaeus, Crito, etc.
• A Neo-Platonist text by Celsus complaining that Christians (unlike pagans) have betrayed monotheism by worshiping Christ. “It makes no difference whether we call Zeus the Most High or Zeus or Adonai or Sabaoth or Amoun like the Egyptians or Papaeus like the Scythians…The gods have one nature but many names.”
• Macrobius’s Saturnalia. In which one character (Praetextatus) gives a lengthy speech about how all the Olympian Gods are, in fact, simply different aspects of Sol Invictus. Some of the gods (e.g. Apollo) fit the model easily, others (e.g. Dionysus) seem to be a bit of a stretch.
• The collected letters of Emperor Julian the Apostate, mainly of a rather bland and phatic nature.
• The Chaldaean Oracles of Julian the Theurgist. Hexameters of religious instruction. “For in all worlds shines the triad whose ruler is the monad.”
• The Hypostasis of the Archons, an almost impenetrable “Gnostic” work.
• Commentary on the Wheel of Fortune
• Tales from the Silk Road
• Text on the Wars of the Diadochi, carried by Zadok
• Page from Aristotle's On Youth and Age
• Stratoniche's Map
• Page from Plutarch's Life of Demetrius