Species: Secret Librarian

Family: Living Nightmare

Risk level: Beneficial

Weaknesses: Fall of its library

Description: They are created after someone with great thirst for knowledge dies without being content with themself. After they pass away the remaining thoughts and remnants of personality bond together to form a single entity. They look like silhouettes of people in long robes and hoods over their heads. The only parts of its body that are visible are a pair of hands that stick out of its sleeves. They are around the size of a normal person in basic form, but they can extend parts of their bodies to get a hold of items that are out of reach using normal means, like books at the top of a bookshelf.

When they first manifest they can somehow detect the nearest location with the biggest amount of information and using that knowledge they try to get towards it. When they are successful they bond themself to this place and start their questionable 'job'. Their main task, while there, is to read every record, every book and every note they can find and then try to sort it depending on the kind of information they extracted from it. In every case where they appeared they managed to increase the productivity of sorting methods drastically.

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If asked directly if they can show you where is the specific information you are looking for, they will in most cases help to find it. If the know that this is something that this place doesn't include they will then go into searching frenzy that will go as long as an entire week, for them to cool of. When they finally read everything there is to know in their current place they will move on onto another to expand their knowledge. If somehow this living shadow becomes a nuisance they can be killed by tearing down the library they inhabit.

This will unfortunatally also destroy most of the books inside, because if they are extracted before the demolishment the Librarian itself will just escape this place. But this is advised against, because they do more good than harm and are not worth the effort to take down.

Personal notes: "The are extemely useful for segregating any of our old blueprints and notes. You would think that they are the most valuable for Vault of Knowledge but you wouldn't be further from truth. They developed their own libraries over many, many years and they don't need a new one for the next century or so. But for us, they are almost irreplaceable. You don't even know how much more managable our research progresses became after a few of them managed to sneak inside our facilities." Aron Tern, member of Cog's Ordeal