Usuaria:LadyLameness/palanaeum

Use and Admittance

- Varas is the Palanaeum's chief of collections. Shallan did a portrait of the man, who then shared it with King Taravangian. Varas reported that the staff of the staff of the conclave were quite taken with Shallan.(added)

- Set in the Conclave within the mountain (added) - Both the Palanaeum and the Veil predate the founding of the city. Some on Roshar believe that the rooms were built by the dawnsingers. (added)

- The Palanaeum is open throughout the evening (added)

- Jasnah found that many of the records in the library had been tampered with and altered during the Hierocracy. (added)

History

Jasnah used the Palanaeum for her research on the Voidbringers, yet found many of the texts tampered with from the Hierocracy.

After the coming of the Everstorm and the transformation of the parshmen, the Palanaeum was inundated with requests from all across Roshar for information on the Voidbringers. Navani sought out the Palanaeum to find information on the Old Magic but found it difficult to get time from the researchers. (added)

She found at least 300 cases of the Old Magic in the library and in each one the curse and boon lasted until the persons death.

Epigraph - The original Palanaeum was involved in a fire

Kadash has a spanreed that connects directly to the leader of Vorinism in Kharbranth and the Vorin research team at the Palanaeum . After Navani realised that Dalinar had helped translate part of the dawnchant through his vision, she sent her work to the Palanaeum to be worked on further by the Vorin researchers. The researchers send translated sections to Kadash periodically.

The ardents in the Holy Enclave also worked on the dawnchant translation and were ahead of the scholars in Kharbranth on their translation.

Taravangian along with a consort of people including Malata and Adrotagia, Kharbranth's head scribe, arrived at Urithiru. Prior to the visit, Navani got in contact with the Palanaeum as she was after information on the NIghtwatcher and the boon and curse. She had difficulty as ever since the Everstorm, the Palanaeum had been inundated with requests for research into the Voidbringers. Taravangian's visit to Urithiru, as well as a favour owed to her, got Navani access to the information she had been after. There are at least 300 cases that Navani knows of, of the boon/curse, from the Palanaeum. (added)

The team of scholars in Jah Keved and Kharbranth reached the Eila Stele translations independently </-- unreliable narrator, Taravangian is a liar--> added

Structure

The Veil

-Before the Palanaeum proper is the Veil - a waiting room that stretches upwards into the mountain and with sides pocketed by private balconies. (added) - The door to the Veil is an intricate geometric design that incorporates circles, lines and glyph's and creates a chart, split across the two doors. (added) - There are stone shafts around the room with manually controlled elevators set into them to take people to the different levels. Four Parshmen are needed to operate these elevators (added) - The balconies can be accessed through hallways set into the stone surrounding the room. (added) - They are round like a turret, with a waist high stone rim and topped with a wooden railing. (added) - Desks connect to the rim of the balcony and follow the curved shape. (added)

The Palanaeum proper

- The Palanaeum proper is accessed through a small chamber full of soulcast crystal partitions. (added) - The chit of admittance for the Palanaeum proper is of one thousand sapphire broams, which pay for the many hospitals in Kharbranth. (added) - There are over seven hundred thousand seperate texts in the Palanaeum - more than even the Holy Enclave of Valath (added)

- Shaped like an inverted pyramid down into the rock, with a walkway running around the walls to form a giant square spiral. There is also a series of lifts to reach levels at a quicker pace. (added) - The bottom of the room cannot be seen from the top - The Palanaeum proper doubles as the Kharbranthian royal treasury and the cities wealth of emeralds are used to light the walkways. They are periodically changed out by ardents from the Devotary of Insight (added) - The books, manuscripts and scrolls stored in the Palanaeum are stored in rooms with tall bookshelves that branch outwards from the walkways. (added) - Inside each room is troughs containing white powder. Shallan theorises that this is why the room are never damp (added) - The size of the Palanaeum and the high admittance fee makes it unlikely that people will run into each other while searching. - Ardents and servants are available to collect volumes on request (added) - The Kharbrathian filing system is standard for many of Roshar's libraries and archives. (added) - Books are organized by the date that they entered the Palanaeum and the top level of the Palanaeum proper contains large cabinets filled with indexes(added) - The head of each (bookshelf) row is carved with a symbol indicating the date the book had entered the Palanaem (added)

- Ardent's will reshelve books (added) - The Palanaeum proper has 57 levels (added) - The main shaft of the room predates the creation of the city of Kharbranth. The rooms that branch away from the ramps and hold the books were cut out from the stone by Kharbranthians. (added) - The point of the inverted triangle aligns with the nadir and within it sits a large infused diamond. (added) - The Palanaem proper has a system of lifts that span the 57 floors (instead of one single lift for all floors) (added)

Historical Catalogue of Texts

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Trivia

• The Palanaeum was named for Pailiah the Herald. In fact, it was named based off the Greek word "Athenaeum".
• It was partly inspired from the ancient Library of Alexandria.
• An open-source project created by 17th Shard for archiving and transcribing Words of Brandon was named after Palanaeum.

Notes

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