Great Library of Magnimar

[Zaister]

In the Sandpoint article in Pathfinder #1, it says about the sage Brodert Quink

Quote:

Brodert claims to have spent two decades of his youth studying with dwarven engineers at Janderhoff and three decades as a cataloger at the Great Library of Magnimar, and is continually baffled and enraged that his learning and obvious intelligence haven’t afforded him more prestige.

Now in the Magnimar article in Pathfinder #2 there is no mention at all of this "Great Library of Magnimar", nor is there anywhere else. Is this a continuity error, or is Quink lying maybe? :)

[Chewbacca]

I would say it's just been forgotten. But who knows ?

[Tarren Dei]

Zaister wrote:

In the Sandpoint article in Pathfinder #1, it says about the sage Brodert Quink

Quote:

Brodert claims to have spent two decades of his youth studying with dwarven engineers at Janderhoff and three decades as a cataloger at the Great Library of Magnimar, and is continually baffled and enraged that his learning and obvious intelligence haven’t afforded him more prestige.

Now in the Magnimar article in Pathfinder #2 there is no mention at all of this "Great Library of Magnimar", nor is there anywhere else. Is this a continuity error, or is Quink lying maybe? :)

Maybe the Great Library ain't so great. ;-)

[Zaister]

What made me suspicious is that it is not stated that Quink worked there, only that he claims to have done so...

[Chewbacca]

Who knows in these days. May be he's lying about his CV and just making up things on Thassilon ?
Is it how you'd prefer him to be ?

[Zaister]

Well, it seems he has his own theories about the what and when of Thassilon. :)

[Tom Baumbach]

I noticed it was missing too, and I had two arcane-oriented players who wanted to use "The Great Library," so after I couldn't find it I placed it at the top of the Arvensoar (which was closed off to just anybody). In retrospect that might not be the best place for it, but it served well at the time.

[Kharis2000]

In my ongoing RotRL game, that came up as well since one of the players chose to have his character grow up in Magnimar and knew that there was no Great Library. I was about to solve it by having Brodert admit that he was really the scribe of a deceased scholar out to make a name for himself on the knowledge he'd gained writing things down for his aged empoyer when they went off the rails with an idea that was so whacked out I *had* to run with it.

At the point this started, they had found the notes referring to 'the quasit' and once the lack of a Great Library was noted, they leapt to the conclusion that 'the quasit' was really 'The Quasit' - the criminal mastermind behind the local Scarzni criminals and architect of their problems in Sandpoint... and that Brodert was that evil mastermind, his guilt in their eyes assured by the fact that they couldn't catch him doing anything.

They're at Ft. Rannick now, but they're *still* convinced that he's the Moriarity of Varisia, and keep looking for ways to see his hand in everything that happens.

I'm so amused by the idea that I'm thinking that I'll actually use it - maybe do a reveal at the end of the campaign that he was indeed a villain, but that he needed someone to oppose a greater villain and elected the party or something like that.

[Keven Simmons]

Perhaps the "Great Library" is in fact the "Founder’s Archive and Museum of Ages" mentioned under the "Arts & Entertainment" section. It is said there that Madam Irba Demerios practically rules the Founder’s Archives and holds the only key to the library’s famed Forbidden Collection.

[Grokken]

Kharis2000 wrote:

In my ongoing RotRL game, that came up as well since one of the players chose to have his character grow up in Magnimar and knew that there was no Great Library. I was about to solve it by having Brodert admit that he was really the scribe of a deceased scholar out to make a name for himself on the knowledge he'd gained writing things down for his aged empoyer when they went off the rails with an idea that was so whacked out I *had* to run with it.

At the point this started, they had found the notes referring to 'the quasit' and once the lack of a Great Library was noted, they leapt to the conclusion that 'the quasit' was really 'The Quasit' - the criminal mastermind behind the local Scarzni criminals and architect of their problems in Sandpoint... and that Brodert was that evil mastermind, his guilt in their eyes assured by the fact that they couldn't catch him doing anything.

They're at Ft. Rannick now, but they're *still* convinced that he's the Moriarity of Varisia, and keep looking for ways to see his hand in everything that happens.

I'm so amused by the idea that I'm thinking that I'll actually use it - maybe do a reveal at the end of the campaign that he was indeed a villain, but that he needed someone to oppose a greater villain and elected the party or something like that.

OMG... I love that.

Party thief is already in the Szcarzni bad side though.