'The library is unlimited but periodic.' - Jorge Luis Borges, 'The Library of Babel'
The true purpose of Recursopolis remains contested. The prevailing theory, championed by Archon Vale, suggests the city itself is an experiment in information dynamics—a closed system designed to test the limits of self-reference. Others, following Lady Entropy Zhang's research, believe the city grew organically from the natural tendency of academic institutions to become increasingly self-referential until physical combat became the only possible source of new data. What's certain is that the bleed effect manifests in predictable ways. Visitors to Recursopolis find themselves compelled to analyze their own analysis, critique their own critiques, until their thoughts spiral into recursive loops that can only be broken through movement. The city's influence extends into adjacent realities as a kind of philosophical gravity well, drawing in those obsessed with questions of self-reference and epistemological violence. In the Peer Review Pavilion, as another day of scholarly combat concl...
From the lore of The Möbius Academy.