Custodians

Custodians are trusted servants of Curator; inhabitants of the Library whose extra limbs give them a vaguely spider-like appearance. These limbs are also longer than usual, and allow the Custodians to climb the walls and shelves of the Library with ease. Wrapped in gray cloaks similar to that of their creator, Custodians have an outward appearance similar to that of a typical human, extra limbs aside. They are a form of undead, having been created from the corpses of those who have departed from this world with anger and sorrow in their hearts. Their minds are soothed by the Curator, and are given endless tasks with which to occupy themselves.

Almost entirely unknown to the world outside of the Library, the only Custodians spotted by outsiders have been seen rummaging around in the aftermath of great battles or cataclysms, no doubt gathering more items to be added to the Curator's collection. Usually these ghastly figures are disregarded as the hallucinations of the traumatized, or mistaken as far crueler entities.