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I wanted to do a big post with all my headcanons that came from the Big Lore Friday (tm) but I think I'll do a few "shorter" ones.

Anyhow: The Ancient Elven Library, it's discovery and the implication for World building.

So, we all know that Gem was informed of the existence of the Library by the Ancient Wizards of the Crystal Cliffs. We also know that for Scott, the Library was more of a story, a tale he had been told as a kid. But Scott mentioned that the Overgrown might know if (and where) it exists, impling that it might even be as old as Aeor and Exor.

But what does that imply for the World and it's Gods, Deities? If the Overgrown (or is it Overgrowth??) is as old as the the Stag Gods, how old is the Empires world? How long have the societies existed? Is it the first world the Gods settled on or did they chose another one after the last fight between the Champions of the Stag Gods? Are the Overgrown and Rivendell connected or did the citizens of Rivendell settle in the original world occupied by the Overgrown?

How is the history of the empires connected? With the Big Lore Drop (tm) (I will continue calling it that, because, holy fork, there was a lot of information on Friday), we learned that the Crystal Cliffs are much older than they seem to be. I mean, ancient Wizards? in a land that doesn't even have a complete Village??? I don't think so. But we also learned that they knew about the ancient library, so they must have known about Rivendell. Or maybe, as Scholars, they worked with the Elven Scholars and that's why they know of it's existence? Gem also said at the end of her episode that she is but a young Wizard, who still has a lot to learn. She wants to build up her empire, create a magic school, prove her worth as a Wizard. I want to believe that a young Gem (or maybe a young Gem and her brother fWhip ????) were send to the Empires World from their Original World (wherever it might be) because the Ancient Wizards knew they would be needed to fight off one and fight with the other of the new champion of the Stag Gods. It would even be that far fetched to believe that there are other worlds out there, considering how Shrub joined the Empires World. Maybe the Wizards knew about the Overgrown. Maybe they sensed that it was a powerful force, a good one, a power of growth and prosperity, providing a good environment for Gem to become the best Wizard she could be.

I think, maybe, that the elves coming from Rivendell also came from their world to the world the Overgrown had settled in, but a long while before Gem was sent there. That's why it knows of the library. That's why Katherine was chosen as the new gardian, because the Overgrown sensed that a new protector was needed. (or maybe she woke up from a century long slumber, who knows how the guardian is chosen. Also the reason she had to rebuild her empire).

We now why the Crystal Cliffs have to be rebuild, we know that Katherine's empire needs to be rebuild, but what about the rest? Why does no one have an empire to live in, no place to stay? (we are just going to blatantly disregard the fact that this is a Minecraft world and that these are CCs creating mainly building content).

The ten original rulers woke up and gathered in the jungle, around a campfire. They then all went to seek out a place to settle and lay down their roots. A part of me wants to believe that they were all sent to the Empires World, where the Overgrown already existed, to help rid their world (or maybe even the universe ????) of all evil. Or maybe, apart from a few exceptions, they all already existed in this world and were hit by some kind of memory spell, making them forget their history, only leaving them with their identity and a wage memory of their history and customs? Regardless of how it went, I believe that all of them were called to build were they did.

All of them are connected somehow. Gem, Katherine and Scott, Lizzie and Jimmy, Gem, fWhip and Sausage, Pearl and Sausage, Sausage, Joey and Xornoth, Joey and Shrub, Scott and Xornoth, Pix and Death... The world is much older than we believe, and I don't think they are all native to that world. They might have all had the same staring point, but that was caused by something.

Now, the library itself was buried in the mountain. We also know that the Heart if the Sea thingy that Lizzie needed was buried in Scott's mountain. Have they risen to cover those things? is it more if a coincidence? Why always Rivendell? The fact that the book of Prophecies was inside the ancient library reinforces my belief that they (the rulers) are all there (the Empires world) for a reason.

Maybe the sea creature that birthed the Seablings is as old as the Overgrown, maybe even older. Maybe it's younger that the Overgrown but older than Rivendell. Maybe the prophecies are more ancient that any of them could ever be.

Who knows? I believe the world and it's inhabitants are all older than we believe and all interconnected somehow. But the rulers themselves are all just youngins (whatever is considered young in their culture) that try to build a better world than the one they left behind.