#tamps

Otherwise just known as TAMPS, or “that bunch of weirdos who are obsessed with imperially suppressed cultures and languages”

Run by Hazard Ailaht and based in Selatak, this library system is primarily dedicated to maintaining circulation of texts written in languages besides Imperial standard. It also encourages more books in those languages to be written by supporting the authors in question with their research.

Such a goal would be borderline treasonous if the library didn’t have another aim: the preservation of texts written by ancient bloodlines and the glorification of said highblood bloodlines that often carried out the very campaigns to homogenize the empire.

It is a contradictory and controversial institution that draws both praise and criticism from its patrons, but is often too handy for either of its key audiences to pass up using.

All trolls who visit its branches are expected to obey the strict no-culling rule the system has, or they will never be invited back after they are escorted off the campus by security drones.

Like most Alternian libraries, access to rare and controversial texts is often dictated by caste, but the librarians have been known to be susceptible to bribes. A stealthy troll could sneak past a dozing archivist and steal forbidden texts, if the drones don’t catch them first.

A library card is easy to obtain even for the lowest hues on the spectrum; a one-time fee of five caegers will allow even a maroon to check out ten books from the public shelves for two weeks at a time. Higher castes get longer loan times and more advanced access levels; they guard their library cards well, but if someone were to ‘borrow’ one, they could certainly put it to use.

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