In your tome, this page looks suspiciously empty, as if it was unfinished. You think you can make out traces of white-out but it is impossible to scratch away to reveal what is underneath. What little there is, however, reads as follows:

A library is a place of comfort and utility for many, and you will not be the only humans perusing its collection. Unlike you, who have the privilege of travelling between incarnations of the Library, most of these humans are native to the time period a particular incarnation exists within, and none the wiser to the immense importance of the aisles they wander.

We call these humans Guests, since they will only ever be found within a single incarnation of the Library.

Although they are fully capable of beholding the Guardians and other permanent denizens of the Library (see Eternal Employees and Pests of the Library), you will be surprised at how myopic your kind can be. You may interact with them as you wish, but do try not to confuse them too much. Remember that they have no knowledge of the fate of the Library they occupy.

Some examples of Guests that you may encounter within a Library include:

• Citizens visiting their local library to find something to read.
• A scholar from a nearby university browsing the articles within a library's archives.
• The library's human librarian restacking the shelves, unaware their library is anything out of the mundane.

• Amar Singh (he/him): Amar is the proud owner of Amar's Bookshop. In his youth, one can imagine (and be confirmed by the pictures all over the walls) a proud, tall figure who tread the paths most people would only ever read about in Atlases. Age may have claimed much of that height, but the pride in Amar's eyes is undimmed by the decades. Amar is an older, clean-shaven Indian man with a particular fondness for colourful turbans. He can usually be found hobbling down the many aisles of his library, probably hiding from his wife, enthusiastically striking up conversations with unwary customers, or pulling books out from the cases at random to stroke reverently, before carefully placing them back on the wrong shelf.

• Priya Singh (she/her): Priya is Amar's long-standing travel companion, co-owner, and better half. She hails from a wealthy Indian family and had the privilege of being university educated, graduating top of her class in Engineering. She was incredibly well-read even before she met Amar, and dazzled him with her startling knowledge of the world before having travelled anywhere. They had been a perfect match from day one, but that was so many years ago. In recent years she's grown short with him, and is often overheard yelling at him for not picking up rations or missing dinner to read. Even though they aren't making many sales lately, she's often found by the cash register keeping meticulous track of their finances, looking through their inventory for valuable books to sell second-hand, and coming up with year 6 maths problems.

More information will be added to this page as the game progresses and PCs meet new Guests across different Libraries.