During the goblin wars, Illustrious Castle was overtaken. When the goblins were pushed back, the remnants of the Order of Illustration returned to the castle. But the best of the Order had been lost in the great push south.
The Order of Illustration, once dedicated to learning and the spread of knowledge, became secretive and reclusive. Seen less and less in the nearby town of Biblyon, they eventually disappeared completely. Finally, one late autumn, the librarians and townsfolk visited the Order and found a mass suicide in a ruined castle. Unable to live with their degraded state, the Order had simply done away with itself.
Since then, the castle has been an eerie place, avoided, haunted. Biblyon remains a place of learning and research, but the deserted castle overlooks the town as a sleeping giant, hollow, crumbling, and foreboding.
- The Walled Library
- Biblyon is a town founded for the preservation of knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It is filled not just with scholars, but with adventurous scholars. The kind that not only study natural philosophy but that head out into the wilderness and return with a dead mushroom walker or a jar full of oblivion fleas. Biblyon’s life blood is scholarship, its currency is knowledge.
- Adventure Guide’s Notes
- Adventure Guide’s Notes in Illustrious Castle: Background
