User:8bit BlackMage/Ex Libris Lucifer

The first thing I remember is the smell of the sea. Green... gray ... white foam and wind. Beyond it all was always land, yet the land was never quite as vast and never quite as honest as the water. If I look back then, maybe I would have been happier if I had stayed, walking waves with the gulls. However, even the sea can be set aflame.

Enough of that. I have already come to terms with my past, I think. It wasn't long and I just don't believe in looking back over my shoulder. I like books now just fine. I have enough to eat, a place to sleep, friends... Just...

When I close my eyes on a summer day, I feel like I must have... forgotten... something.

Something important to me.

- Ex Libris Lucifer -

Synopsis
Granea is a collection of island states that have fallen under an alliance for a republic. Ten years of struggle saw the success of a united government after all opposition for the individual autonomy were finally quelled. Now the islands of Granea prosper in trade, naval prowess and a powerful network of information trade.

The pride of Granea is its Ex Libris system. The islands have long valued study and history. The books of Granea have exceptional longevity and are cared for by every governance in its thousand-year history. Through the Ex Libris system, anyone with a Libris license can check out any materials within their authority to view from any location. This peace would carry on for merely half a decade.

Recently, a group of outlaw extremists have taken to finding and burning books. Two of the Ex Libris libraries have been bypassed. Though most of the tomes were salvaged and every book and scroll was proofed against flames, a few books would always go missing. No citizen knows quite what books they are but the government is barely restraining its concern.

Amidst all this, each of the characters get swept up in a strange story where Librarians battle with the power of words, consuming pages and creating pages to fight for their beliefs.

To protect the world they live in and to prevent the prophesized calamity, Lucifer's Librarians, a secret faction of book mages, seek out a legendary grimoire to seal it before it awakens.

That tome, the book that contains all the chaos of the world, is called Pandemonium's Egg.

Pandemonium's Egg is a powerful grimoire with the ability to alter fate. If opened carelessly, chaos swallows the world.

It's a book that rewrites the past and the future, a book that remembers everything that has ever happened and holds blank pages to record whatever can happen. A book that knows all.

Some characters will be pursuing the librarians, not the book. Some characters will be librarians and pursue the book to seal it. Some characters might even know of the secret of this book and attempt to change the path of history with it.