The NarratorAging librarian and author
An aging librarian who has traveled the Library in his youth, administers a hexagon, and is now preparing to die, leaving behind his written testament.
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The chief of one of the upper hexagonsHistorical librarian
A librarian from five hundred years ago who discovered a book containing almost two pages of homogeneous lines.
The traveling deciphererLinguist
An expert who initially suggested the homogeneous lines found by the chief were written in Portuguese.
A librarian of geniusHistorical scholar
The philosopher who discovered the fundamental law of the Library: that it is total and contains all possible combinations of twenty-two orthographic symbols.
This philosopher
The inquisitorsOfficial searchers
Exhausted individuals who travel the hexagons leafing through books in search of disgraceful words, without expecting to actually find anything.
official searchers
The PurifiersFanatical sect
A destructive group driven by an ascetic rage who invaded hexagons to eliminate 'worthless' books, hoping to eventually find the magical books of the Crimson Hexagon.
fanatics
The Book ManMythological figure
A legendary, god-like librarian rumored to have found and examined the perfect compendium of all other books.
Him
Letizia Alvarez de ToledoTheorist
A theorist mentioned in a footnote who observed that the vast Library is pointless and proposed a single volume with infinitely thin pages.
CavalieriMathematician
A historical figure mentioned in a footnote who stated that every solid body is the super-position of an infinite number of planes.