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The Library (Hangul: 도서관, Doseogwan) is a library made from the Seed of Light and the remains of Facility X-394 of Lobotomy Corporation. It resides in the middle of the Nest of District 12, replacing the original Headquarters of L Corp, now a fallen Wing. Angela is the director of the Library and its creator, able to control the power within the Library along with the other Patron Librarians.
The Library is portrayed as a large, towering structure composed of 10 Floors that contains infinite internal space. It focuses on storing Books from the people who die inside it. To access the Library, an Invitation has to be used, and those who sign the Invitation become the Guests. The Invitation offers Books of interest of the Guests, and if they do survive the ordeals within the Library, they can take the Books and leave. Otherwise, they will become Books.
In-game, The Library acts as the main hub where the player can organize their teams of Librarians, their Key Pages and Combat Pages, additional equipment, check information of the Abnormality Pages, and send Invitations. It is composed of two screens.
Library Tab[]
The Library's screen
The screen has two buttons at the top right corner of the screen, to access the Library and Invitation tab.
The Library screen shows the unlocked Floors. When selecting one, it will show at the left the team of Librarians and at the right the unlocked Abnormality Pages of the selected Floor. Below the team of Librarians will be the name of the Floor, their Level, and their respective Assignments left to increase that Floor to the next Level. Below that at the bottom, is a button to burn Books.
Once a new Floor has completed all its Assignments, it will mark on its icon an exclamation icon where the player can decide to enter the Abnormality Battle to increase the Level of the Floor.
Assignments can be done with any Floor and increasing the Level of a Floor unlocks a new Story of their Patron Librarian and an Abnormality Battle to obtain new Abnormality Pages.
The Librarians can be clicked to check their Stats, their current Key Pages and Combat Pages at the right side, obtained Battle Symbols, and adjust their appearance and customization.
When checking a Librarian, one can click on their Key Page to change it to another one. There is also an attribution system, which allows you to attribute other Key Pages to a Key Page in order to inherit their passive abilities. Key pages can only be equipped to one Librarian at a time and Key Pages that are attributed to another Key Page cannot be equipped.
Clicking on any Combat Page in the Key Page's combat bookshelf (deck) will open a menu of all obtained Combat Pages, and from here clicking on Pages will insert/remove them from the deck. Note that the deck is associated with the Key Page rather than the Librarian.
A customization button that changes the aspect of the Librarian is at the left side of the screen upon selecting a Librarian. In it can be customized the name, size, and title, hair and face features, and dialogue. Next to this button can be found 'Appearance Projection', which allows the librarian to take the appearance of any Key Page you have unlocked, but does not affect the Librarian's Stats or Abilities.
At the bottom of the left tab without selecting a Librarian is a button to burn Books. There, the player can pick up to 20 Books and burn them to obtain Key Pages and Combat Pages from that Book's pool. The Book's pool depletes from this process, but can be refreshed on request and is automatically refreshed when there are no Pages left. Note that, while Combat Pages can be farmed indefinitely, only a set number of each Key Page may be obtained, depending on its rarity.
Story[]
The Library was the product of the Seed of Light combined with the facility of Lobotomy Corporation. At the True Ending of Lobotomy Corporation, Angela betrayed the collective objective of the Seed of Light for her own goals to pursue freedom. Originally, the Seed of Light had to last 7 days, but after 3 days, Angela managed to achieve the control of the light and used them to create the Library, taking time and preparations to be finally complete. Angela wanted to use the Library to gather the knowledge and information contained in the City and its inhabitants.
The Library possesses the power of infinite interior space and unique rules that affect its own area. Angela has control of the Library to a certain extension, being able to instantly teleport to any are within it, modify the local Floor environment, and turn any person who has previously turned into a Book back to life or return them again to a Book. The Library can only progress by collecting Light and Books from the people who come inside. Anyone who dies inside the Library is turned into a Book instead of dying and can be returned back to life, but forever trapped within the Library. The Library amplifies the emotions
Since the Library only has control of its interior and limited ways to influence the outside world, Invitations are created and used to reach out to the people who will be its designated targets. Those invited by The Library's Invitation are called Guests. The Invitations use Books which are of interest to the Guests being invited, under conditions in which acceptance is almost guaranteed. Even if the Invitation can be given to another person, it will always reach its designated group of Guests by some turn of events. Even if the Library has Books and might require more to function, it is very likely that the Books that were created during its process of preparation were just filled with nonsensical information, although, others might contain the information of the facility, Lobotomy Corporation, the people who worked in it, their protocols, Abnormalities, etc, all that was previously known or studied by the facility. Angela can also write Books of her own knowledge to use in the Invitations.
Once someone has signed the Invitation, a door will appear and take the group to the Library, phasing out immediately. It can be in any place and under any sort of conditions, as long the involved people who are going to the Library are the ones who signed the envelope.
The Guests must face an ordeal inside the Library, taken into a Reception, where they will face the Librarians who must fight them. Once one side has fallen, the act of the Reception will end. If the Guests survive, they will take the Books and leave. If the Librarians defend successfully, the Guests are turned into Books. Still, Guests are potentially able to escape their fate within the Library via contingency plans or escape routes, suddenly fleeing instead of being turned into Books.
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| However, even Guests who try to escape only seem to be able to do so if the Library allows it. The Library seems to have a will of its own, as shown by which Guests it allows to flee and who it prevents from fleeing, as well as which Guests it chooses to invite. Notably, all Guests who have escaped the Library have ended up acting in ways which ultimately benefit the Library more (by leading to the acquisition of more Books) than they would have if they died originally.
It is revealed in the Religion Realization that the will of the Library was actually Carmen, who is also acting as the Voice of Distortions. During the reception of the Head, Zena reveals that the Library is actually Angela's true E.G.O. |
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Trivia[]
- The Library is based on The Library of Babel, a short story about a universe in the form of a library with all possible books, information, and infinite space, but also containing useless or gibberish information.
- During Distortion Detective, the Library was at the time classified as a Distortion of the class Urban Legend by Dias.