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fictional-library-tournament · 5 months

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Prelims round 1, poll 19

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Scarlet Devil Mansion Library, Touhou:

It's said to have books of all kind, in thousands of different languages, and about countless different things. Some of the books were written by the librarian herself, Patchouli Knowledge. The was also probably one of the first recognizable set pieces in the windows touhou games, being the fourth stage in it's introductory game.

The Lines Between, Dimension 20: Neverafter:

Contains all versions of every story ever written, told, or imagined - free existential horror with every checkout!

"You're nothing more than scratches of ink on someone else's piece of paper."

The Lines Between is a massive place between stories, and staffed by diverse and deific librarians who are just doing their best, such as Glossary, Key, Legend and Index. The library is physically made of books, scrolls, and parchment. Its areas include the Hall of Stories, the Canonade, the Tower of Tales, and perhaps most remarkably: a brilliant view of the Auroratory. It is a beautiful aurora borealis of voices, preserving auratory stories that aren't necessarily written down. It is possible to swim up and into the Auroratory.

Fort Maria Library, Star Sable Online:

(All images come from ssoblr users)

So this is not necessarily a public library and it was abandoned for a long time (as far as we know) but the druids have it up again recently in game. It was built as part of Fort Maria centuries ago by the time of the game, and holds books from all those eras.

It is a gorgeous and expansive place with secret passageways, rare tomes, fluffy seats, old abandoned research, a lot of study areas, old relics, a moving bookcase to a portal cavern and even its very own library ghost!

It is, in my opinion, one of the most atmospheric places in the game. Even without sound on it is gorgeous and bring across its intention incredibly well, and with the sound on it is incredibly eerie. The music here is very limited and quiet, and the player’s footsteps echo through the library.

I feel like whatever you’re researching, you will find something on it in here. It feels like a place you could spend your whole life reading in, and still only have read a tiny fraction of the books there.

the citizens of jorvik (fictional star stable online island) keep all the witchcraft books in there and all their super secret and cool magic books, it was closed for years and it's very mysterious. one of the coolest characters (mrs. holdsworth) in the whole game hangs out there a lot, and it's home to a cute little capran named beatrix and she took her name from her favorite book. the only way you get in the library is by feeding her snacks and reading her books and she's also one of the coolest characters in the game (imo). also beatrix is friends with one of the horses in the game and she often is seen playing with the horse so :) OH and also there's a full heckin portal room in the lower floor!!! with a little pond and a portal that at some point the main characters (the "soul riders") get kicked in by the evil guys (the "dark riders") into this place called devil's gap (despite the name there's just one witch basically vibing in the gap potentially helping out the evil guys but we haven't figured that out yet). and it's gorgeous, if you're worrying about looks. the inside is all wooden and home-y and the portal room is also very pretty eye candy, it's very glow-y.

Bookholm, The City of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers

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orvizs · 8 months

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#ssoblr #sso #star stable online #star stable #sso fort maria

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lukas-crowsong · 2 years

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alexis used baby-doll eyes! it wasn't very effective.

haven't gotten here with alexis yet but by aideen he is in my head All The Time i think i actually dream about him

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numberoneavalonfan · 2 years

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fort maria pics because im in love with it

#ssoblr #sso #star stable #star stable online #sso screenshots #star stable screenshots #sso spoilers #star stable spoilers #sso fort maria #fort maria

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lilisjorvikadventures · 3 months

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Welcome to Fort Maria

She has been waiting for you.

Feel invited

by all her knowledge

and all her secrets.

What will you do, traveller?

Will you study the past?

Are you looking to the future?

Are you the one writing History?

Are you ready for what you will find in these halls?

Are you ready for all she has to offer?

Are you ready?

#ssoblr #sso roleplay #star stable online #sso spoiler #sso #star stable #star stable screenshots #sso screenshots #sso fic #star stable roleplay #sso rp #fort maria

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feliciawolfpaw · 2 years

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#star stable spoilers #sso spoilers #star stable online #star stable #sso #ssoblr #jessica #jay #fort maria #gifset #by me

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sso-maev · 1 year

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Whichever people designed the environments for these past few events deserve the pay raise of a life time

#fort maria?? devils gap?? THE INBETWEEN???#every single place is so stupidly gorgeous #sso #star stable online #star stable #sso spoilers

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jorvikzelda · 8 months

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A perfectly normal trail ride with absolutely no odd or out-of-place occurrences at all.

#beatrix: I'm sad Concorde can't go in Fort Maria with me anymore now that she's all grown up #elli: watch me bitch #z talks #sso #ssoblr #sso spoilers #z's photos #h: horse #yes my clydesdale is named horse and i think its a terribly appropriate name to be honest

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kelly-dreamway-sso · 8 months

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so when can i move in

#ssoblr #star stable online #star stable screenshots #sso spoilers #<<< idk if my mutual has that tag blocked or if they've even had fort maria spoiled already or not but #better safe than spoiled

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gladewood · 2 years

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the marwari bridles r so underrated

#star stable online #sso #ssoblr #honestly besides fort maria #i think stormgardens the only other part of epona i rlly like

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centeris2 · 7 months

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after months I finally caught up on all the sso quests sometime last week. I don't have to avoid spoilers anymore. yayyy

but catching up on the quests was more like

-runs through fort maria- -runs through fort maria- -runs through fort maria- -runs through for

Repeating "SSO is an AU of SSL" over and over to myself as the game moves further from SSL and the first few years of SSO. (It's helping, slowly.)

#sso #don't mind me I'm talking #so much running through fort maria to get all the dialogue options

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salty-medley · 1 year

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SSO - Fort Maria paintings

This library contains a lot of rather interesting paintings, most of them sadly only related to the druids, but for a part of them, few details are a bit intriguing:

The "roman" temple

Why would we find roman ruins in an island which is on the north of the Baltic Sea ? I guess most people don't think about it but it was my main reaction when I saw it in Epona. Now... That painting could give the start of an explanation: if you look at the ambiance and the light, you'll see it's not in earth anymore, it's in the in-between worlds path. And it's a portal. Maybe a portal to travel on either another world ( roman themed one ?) or on another country, like the Roman empire.

2. The harbour

This one looks rather normal, you can think about Cape West or Fort Pinta... Which one by the way ? There's not the colors of Golden, nor the statue of Fort Pinta, and certainly not the fortifications of the last one, and we know that it was fortified since the start, and the boats are more modern, something you can find in the 50s/60s. So where could it be ? Well, it still can be Cape West if we consider that the permanant autumn weather is related to the witches, but it can also be another sea side city in Jorvik, something on the closed part of the map.

3. The castle

One of the most interesting ones, if not the most. Keep in mind that I don't change the orientation of the screenshot, it's the right side. It looks like Silverglade castle, but... There's like a lake and mountains, full of snow, behind it. But the painting represents spring, there's a blossoming tree here. So... Where it is ? Could it be the lands eras before ?

4. In the sky

It's clearly not an unknown place. Do you remember the cloud event with Mica ? That strange castle silhouette you can see in the clouds ? Well, you have it with more details. We can see something like a plaza and stairs to a higher place, some columns and some trees made of clouds. There's also several winged horses ( why not pegasi ? Because Pegasus is a name, not a specie. Winged horse is a way better term) and one single human girl, probably Aideen or one of her incarnations. I though that it could be a cloud civilization BUT the magic side of the Wildwoods made me think about MPL and I think it's one of their main inspiration, so why not wild winged speaking horses ? It's dumb and childish, right in their current line.

The only question would be: why stairs when they can fly ? Eh... That one is a real mystery.

5. Mystical valley

You will say "Oh but it's a wild forest like in the Wildwoods, it's here ?" Well, since when there's palm trees in Wildwoods ? When you look more at it, the whole light make it feel warmer than the Jorwegian islands, something almost tropical. And... Is it a dinosaur like creature in the water ? Could it be what was the valley of the dinosaur before ? No, there's a south american pyramid on the right side, and a giant head. Plus, you can see some openings in the cliff, like if they were living in it, despite the small waterfalls. But you still can see a horse like creature and the soul riders runes... Very weird mix, making me think that Jorvik and its present location could just be our world's version. If you heard about the String theory, it's based on it. I have a very hard time to conceive Jorvik having both roman and pre-columbian ruins at the same time while being located near Iceland. You'll excuse me people, but having several dimensions looks more logical at that point.

6. The storm

I can't say if it's earth or not, but these rocks are really unique and threatening at the same time. Kinda looks like petrified waves, no?

7. Druidic stone

Another strange forest painting... This one has horses and a druidic stone on it, so I assume it's Jorvik. Once again, it gives a more warm feeling, it doesn't look like it's in the north of Europe at all. There's something prehistorical, I can explain why.

8. Ruins

That one intrigues me like A LOT ! These ruins looks like medieval ones, something from the early medieval era. But why are they that destroyed ? The whole place is unknown to me, I can't figure where it is, and what is the era of the painting.

#star stable online #sso #jorvik #silverglade #fort maria #aideen

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lukas-crowsong · 2 years

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i really hope fort maria stays open to us permanently after these quests

#ssoblr #star stable #star stable online #sso #fort maria #sso fort maria #fort maria quests #sso update

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numberoneavalonfan · 2 years

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ARE WE GETTING FORT MARIA AFTER ALL TBESE YEARS??2)"910#0_(?_(#?$