Thoth Bookshop is a thin but long two-story bookstore in a nice area of East Biloxi. The walls and floors are made from dark oak, covered by richly-colored tapestries and rugs. The store is decently lit, tall windows in the front providing good lighting during the day and soft overhead lighting illuminating the shop in the evening. There is a strong scent of incense, usually sandalwood, and Arabic folk and pop music playing softly from cheap speakers hooked up at various points in the store.
The first floor houses a few shelves of generic accessible fiction and non-fiction, followed by a great deal of New Age and "occult" literature -- "aura reading," tarot, ghosts, angels, faeries, and Wicca are just some of the many topics covered. This is Thoth Bookshop's largest market, and more than half the first floor is devoted to it; almost none of it would be useful to a true supernatural, although Hunters may find some useful starting points here, especially among the encyclopedias on monsters and myth. The second floor is for the more "mature" reader: here the subjects focus on ancient and world history, poetry, political theory, philosophy, psychology, and some parapsychology; most of it is in ancient history. There is also a basement level which can be accessed by a stairwell near the counter in the front. The basement contains carefully stocked first editions and esoteric/antique tomes. There are a number of supernaturally significant works here of varying usefulness.
As soon as one opens the front door with its distinctive jingling bell, they are greeted warmly by Zaman Al-Qadir, a Middle Eastern man in his 40s with graying black hair and beard, brown skin, a few wrinkles, and a skull cap. He dresses casually in a long tunic with a sash (around Islamic holidays) or in a button-down linen shirt with a long vest and dark slacks. He speaks English with a heavy accent although his mastery of the language is very good; Arabic is his first language (he speaks an Egyptian dialect), and he also knows Coptic, Hebrew, and a little Bengali.
[Created by KingofPain]
The first floor houses a few shelves of generic accessible fiction and non-fiction, followed by a great deal of New Age and "occult" literature -- "aura reading," tarot, ghosts, angels, faeries, and Wicca are just some of the many topics covered. This is Thoth Bookshop's largest market, and more than half the first floor is devoted to it; almost none of it would be useful to a true supernatural, although Hunters may find some useful starting points here, especially among the encyclopedias on monsters and myth. The second floor is for the more "mature" reader: here the subjects focus on ancient and world history, poetry, political theory, philosophy, psychology, and some parapsychology; most of it is in ancient history. There is also a basement level which can be accessed by a stairwell near the counter in the front. The basement contains carefully stocked first editions and esoteric/antique tomes. There are a number of supernaturally significant works here of varying usefulness.
As soon as one opens the front door with its distinctive jingling bell, they are greeted warmly by Zaman Al-Qadir, a Middle Eastern man in his 40s with graying black hair and beard, brown skin, a few wrinkles, and a skull cap. He dresses casually in a long tunic with a sash (around Islamic holidays) or in a button-down linen shirt with a long vest and dark slacks. He speaks English with a heavy accent although his mastery of the language is very good; Arabic is his first language (he speaks an Egyptian dialect), and he also knows Coptic, Hebrew, and a little Bengali.
[Created by KingofPain]