Librarians

The Librarians of the Great Uruk Library a sister guild of the cartographers collect and maintain an immense library of maps. This is the third function of the cartographers- to feed the obsessive and ongoing collection of the library. They buy interesting and unusual maps at any opportunity.

Maps not only help in the future but also serve as a record of progress and inform us of the past. The detailed maps in the library explain to those who can read them tricks and secrets necessary to keep the city alive.

The oldest maps are dated before the guild existed and are though to document a place at a time not long after the event. Of course so much time has passed that this place is unlikely to be recognisable by this map now.

Time moves as the city does but the maps capture a snapshot of time past and act as a moving history of Uruk as a whole.

This began as an mark on the prison cell wall - documenting time passing in hopes of an eventual end. But this was long ago, now the map keeping has become an almost ritual component of society and its worth is rarely questioned.