"While in your career you will learn many lessons, never forget this first and most vital bit of advice. A mind is like a sword. Useless if dull. In other words, do your research. It might just save your life one day."
-Adventurer's Almanac
Welcome to Black Fire Library, bold adventurers and seekers of knowledge. Or, more accurately, welcome to the comprehensive compendium of texts, tomes, and testimonials regarding the various events, persons, and locations of Aemaphia as well as the surrounding planes, discs, and spheres within the far-flung realms of Existence which has been painstakingly curated for your intellectual edification.
Here, you can discover the many details of the various nations of ancient Acarcia, the clandestine kingdoms of hidden Faselicia, the natural wonders of the frozen wastes of the twin Polarei, or the uncharted abyss of the Aecornaus and its countless islands yet unexplored. Here, you can unearth the innumerable mysteries of The Creed, find divine purpose adhering to the edicts of The Eightfold Faith or devote yourself to the unyielding practices of The Words of Wisdom, decipher antediluvian secrets whispered by the shapeless Speakers of The Primal Laws, and uncover the euphoric purpose found from adherence to The Harmonious Way. Here, you can master the nuanced magical truths taught by the Arcane Consensus, deconstruct the elaborate machinations and formulae of The Source, and try to endure the eldritch secrets of the inscrutable Patrons of Those Led Astray. Here, the histories of the heroes and villains of the many various Beastfolk, the humble wandering Kinder, the imperious Giantkin worldshapers, the stoic artisans known as the Duergar, the ever-adversarial Orcs, the mad industrialists known as Gnomes, the capricious Elves and their various subspecies are laid bare for all to judge. Here the countless teeming hordes of monsters that stalk the shadowy corners of the world are categorized; from the soaring flights of the Dragons who guard the world to the malicious Aboleth who seek to warp it, from the wild Beasts, the strange and whimsical Fey, the eldritch Aberrations, the divine Eternals, to the Undead which are anathema to Existence itself, as well as the ever-ambitious Terran who believe themselves the rulers of Aemaphia. All these are yours to traverse.Every story. Every legend. Every secret is now at your very finger tips, fellow adventurer. Enjoy your stay and learn all you can.
The Black Fire Library is an exploration of fantasy as a literary genre and our relationship, as readers, with it. The projects goal is to create a media masterpiece that both honors the past and shapes the future of literature.