"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." — Oscar Wilde
The Librarians operate under the Doctrine of Narrative Subsistence, a bureaucratic framework as rigid as it is absurd. To become a Librarian, one must first forget their own name—a process overseen by Cipher the Unspoken in the Lexicon Loom. The act is irreversible, though rumors persist of a loophole hidden in the Marginalia. The system is maintained by Orpheus the Unheard, who records every deviation in a ledger that no one is permitted to read. When the system fails, as it often does, the consequences are both mundane and catastrophic: a misplaced footnote might unravel an entire district, or a single misspelled word could birth a new inhabitant.
From the lore of The Metamorphosis of Memory.