Archives of Torserd

"It is always possible the records are incomplete."

- Proverb of the Azurejays, Scholar-Knights of San Sylvester

This article is incomplete and will require additional work.

The Archives of Torserd is a physical campus, the institution maintaining the campus, and the collection thus maintained at Khaz Duersterkrak, in its own complex across the Hall of Hallows from the Temple of the Deep. The Archives are an especially famous institution, and a major (possibly sole) driver for travel to the city unrelated to trade.

Torserd Magnusson is himself credited with the foundation of the institution early in the history of the city, as a place to store both his scribes' writings as well as supposed "channeled" messages that are said to have come to the god under the influence of Deep Brandy, a substance whose formulation is lost to history - these later being excluded from the Deeplore and instead referred to as part of the Secret Archive. The collection has since grown exponentially, becoming to lore (especially writings regarding the divine mysteries) as the Great Archive of All Slights is to the Holy Dwarven Grudge.

The elven scholar Magister Idiodox once posited that the Archives of Torserd might also contain the most complete set of records of the Pre-Baghar Culture ever established on Ahren, at least outside of the city of Baghar itself, but the city's impassible location and the jealous protection of the archives by the Dwarves has thus far prevented any direct outside scholarship at the Acrhives.