The Reference Archives is a building on Luna Nova's campus that can only be accessed with a magic key possessed by the professors only. Its contents are stored in the cubby holes that line the Hyperboloid structure at the building's center which supports, along with the tholobate, an umbrella dome with small circular equidistant windows. From the outside the Archives can be seen to have a lantern, but there is no visible access point to it from the inside. There are no stairs or ladders, so one must use a broom, however there appear to be balconies. There is no central form of organization in the Archives, making finding a particular item a daunting task.
At some point the contents were considered too sensitive (both in their physical state and in the knowledge they contain) to keep in the library, but they are so old that they have been largely forgotten by even the professors. Even if they were to gain access, very few witches could understand the information within the archives, as it is written in the Luna Alphabet. Had the professors more attentive to its contains, however, the academy's problems would be less severe and therefore fared better in both preserving and improving its traditions in addition of averting scenarios where younger generations being forced to clean up their predecessors' messes and break its rules in the process (ex. Akko, Lotte, and Sucy freeing Vajarois from the grip of Seed of Sorrow with help of both Professor Ursula and Shiny Rod's magic at the cost of being disqualified from Samhain Festival after the academy's professors had long forgotten her true nature as the restless spirit of a deceased princess from an ancient kingdom and Croix provides Luna Nova with her magitronics as temporary solution in handling magic energy crisis)[1][2].
Contents[]
The following are identified contents of Luna Nova Archives:
The Book of the Grand Triskellion[3][4]: An incunabula written in the Luna Alphabet about Nine Olde Witches, Grand Triskellion, and Claomh Solais, the key to unlock the seal placed on World Altering Magic. Its resting place in the archive is revealed by the light of the Blue Moon shining from nearby window.
Vajarois Vestige: A nut-like item with an ancient spirit that knows why Vajarois is cursed with sorrow.
Diana goes to the Headmistress's office to ask for help finding a book about the Nine Olde Witches, which she could not find in the Library. Miranda Holbrooke gives her a key to the archives and advises her to go when the blue moon is high in the sky. Diana finds the book she was looking for when the light of the Blue Moon illuminates it.
Ursula goes to the Archives after learning from a book at the library that Vajarois Vestige is stored there. She calls the spirit inside the Vestige and it tells her the truth about Vajarois's suffering.
Ursula being informed by the faery within Vajarois's vestige about the cause of Vajarois' current cursed state
Trivia[]
Hall of Faces and Luna Nova Archives' shelves comparison
Though likely a coincidence, the appearance of the towering cabinet of Luna Nova Archives was influenced by the pillars of Hall of Faces belonged to Faceless Men from Game of Thrones series. Even like the former, said pillars double as cabinet of sort where in this case, to store faces of those the assassin guild killed.
