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==History==
===Ancient History===
The exact origin of the library is unclear, stories within its shelves name the [[Old Ones]],{{Fn|9}} the ancient [[Aeldari]],{{fn|9}} and the [[Eldar Mythology|Eldar Gods]].{{Fn|9}} [[Cegorach]] is closely associated with the library, and may be it's creator, although for what purposes the Laughing God would build such a repository can only be guessed.{{Fn|2}}
===Fall of the Eldar===
While Black Library exists wholly within the [[Webway]]{{Fn|5a}} within the [[Warp]],{{Fn|11}} and echoes of the Black Library persist within the [[materium]]. Some time after the opening of the Great Rift, the last of these traces in realspace were located at the western fringes of the [[Ghoul Stars]], within a triangle formed by the [[Grand Shrine of Asuryan]] and the [[Exodite world]]s of [[Syph]] and [[Quilan]].{{Fn|5a}}
The Black Library may be accessed in several ways, including via the labyrinthian paths of [[Webway Gate]] s guarded by the [[Harlequin]]s{{Fn|}} such as those detailed within the [[Tome of Karebennian]]{{Fn|10a}}{{Fn|16a}} (which intentionally lead to ambush on [[Arcadia]]){{Fn|16b}} and through the more flamboyant path known as the [[Endless Stair]] or '''Neverending Stair'''{{Fn|7a}} a coiling vortex of silver runes through which the [[White Seer]]s and their engines translocate to any [[Webway Portal]] within the [[Webway]].{{Fn|7a17}}
==Construction==
*[[Morcan Fiorinintal]] of [[Alaitoc]]{{Fn|10}}
A select few [[Human]]s dedicated to destroying [[Chaos]]{{fn|1}} have been given access to the [[Black Library]] by the Black Council,{{fn|10}} and even then only in the company of [[Harlequin]]s,:{{Fn|14}} including a select few [[Inquisitor]]s of the [[Ordo Malleus]],{{Fn|14}} and [[Bronislaw Czevak]],{{Fn|10}} as well as the [[Illuminati]] who have been granted special access to come and go from the library as they pleasetheir needs warrant.{{Fn|1}}
==Sources==
*{{Endn|8}}: [[Warhammer 40,000 6th Edition Rulebook]], pg. 296
*{{Endn|9}}: [[Ahriman: Undying (Novel)]] - Prologue
*{{Endn|10}}: [[Atlas Infernal (Novel)]] **:{{Endn|10a}} – Interregna III**:{{Endn|10b}} - Interregna IV
*{{Endn|11}}: [[Codex: Eldar (2nd Edition)]], pg. 13
*{{Endn|12}}: [[Harlequin (Novel)]], Chapters 19-20
*{{Endn|14}}: [[Codex: Eldar (4th Edition)]], pg. 13
*{{Endn|15}}: [[Codex: Necrons (5th Edition)]], pg. 6
*16: [[Dawn of War: Tempest (Novel)]]:
**{{Endn|16a}}: Chapter Ten
**{{Endn|16b}}: Chapter Twelve
*{{Endn|17}}: [[Rise of the Ynnari: Ghost Warrior (Novel)]], Ch. 5
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