Library

In Ars Magica, the library is one of the most important elements of a Covenant. Magi use Books to study the Hermetic Arts and improve their ability to do magic.

The size, breadth, and quality of a library's collection is a strong determinant of how quickly magi can advance in power. Therefore, the library should be designed to suit the desired Power Level and advancement rate for the player-character magi.

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References

• Discussion of the power level of a covenant library may be found on page 71 of ArM5.
• Covenants includes a chapter on libraries (pages 84-102).
• The Lion and the Lily discusses at some length the Normandy Tribunal's policy about the giving and lending of books to and from the central Library of Confluensis Covenant's Library (pages 22-23).