![]() ![]() Picking up the sword, Elisabeth realizes one of the grimoires has been turned into a Malefict - a hybrid book-demon, who is able to walk on its own and kill humans. She stumbles across the Director’s legendary sword, Demonslayer, and then finds the Director dead. Nathaniel surprised her by being both handsome and kind.Īs the smell indicates unauthorized magic has been performed among the grimoires, Elisabeth proceeds with caution. As a librarian, Elisabeth has been taught to fear sorcerers because they gain their magic by giving years of their lives to a demon in exchange for the demon’s power. She smelled it the previous year when a young sorcerer, Nathaniel Thorn, had performed a spell in her presence. She recognizes a peculiar odor, *aetherial combustion*. She explores the library alone as everyone else is asleep. ![]() ![]() One night, Elisabeth wakes and is convinced she heard a sound. Five are evenly spaced in a circle with the sixth located in the circle’s center, the capital city of Brassbridge. Elisabeth hopes to one day become a warden herself, as she can imagine no other life than that within the walls of one of Austermeer’s six Great Libraries. Now 16, she is an apprentice librarian under the tutelage of the library’s wardens and Director. Elisabeth Scrivener was abandoned at the Great Library of Summershall as a baby and has spent her entire life being raised among its books and grimoires - living books of magical spells. ![]()
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