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Atticleaves

Atticleaves is a bookstore currently owned and operated by Rimas Nolie.

History

Atticleaves has existed for over 100 years, and has changed hands numerous times.

Founding

Atticleaves was founded as “Moira's Pages” by Basil Moira in 403 GD. The building it occupies was once a three-story apartment building, but the basement was flooded after the Storm of 401, resulting in extensive damage to the apartments that were below ground, as well as those that were on the first floor. The foundation was still intact, however the tenants were forced out as the space was no longer livable, leaving the space empty.

Basil Moira Era

From 403 GD to his death in 440 GD, Moira's Pages was owned and operated by its founder, Basil Moira. Basil specialized in procuring and promoting books that were locally produced by Kalts, especially by residents of Tolikra.

Jonah Moira Era

From 440 GD to 462 GD, Moira's Pages was owned and operated by Basil Moira's firstborn child, Jonah Moira. Jonah found it difficult to operate a bookstore on the scale of the original floor plan (which took up the first two entire floors of the building), and made the decision to scale back the size of the operation and lease out the remaining floor space to other businesses as a new revenue stream. Roughly 40% of the second floor which was at street level on the west side of the building, and roughly 70% of the first floor, which was at the lot level on the east side of the building. The business with which Atticleaves shares the second floor has been a restaurant consistently since it was split off.

Ulysses Moira Era

From 462 GD to 501 GD, Ulysses Moira owned and operated Moira's Pages. Ulysses took the business in another direction, buying out the space beneath the bookstore once again, and forming a network of contacts across the world to seek and acquire rare books, texts, scrolls, and research papers. Ulysses displayed these on the first floor to paying entrants. Included were books from dead civilizations, research papers describing technologies which had never been built, spell scrolls which were still charged with magic, single-print novels from authors who never wrote again, and artworks of all kinds, from all sorts of people.

He would ban anyone who attempted to steal anything on the first floor, and issued a stern warning to those who attempted to buy anything from there.

“You can't put a price on what's in here. This is knowledge. It's knowledge that wasn't valued by the people who previously hid it from the world. I will not allow anyone to put it back into the dark. This knowledge is for everyone. Period.”

Samuel Nolie Era

Atticleaves was once owned and operated by Samuel Nolie, but following his battle with pancreatic cancer and subsequent death, Francine attempted to take it over, but she could not keep up with the medical bills and was forced to sell it.

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