The Peculiar Archives is where the official records of peculiars are held. The building is situated near Wakeling and Rookery in London, England in the Carnival Tourist Loop.
The Council of Ymbrynes also meet in the archives to convene for their annual Nitpicking of the Bylaws.
Description[]
The building itself is four stories, the top three just rows of narrow, rounded windows, like an old office building. It was nearly identical to all the buildings around it. In Hollow City, it was totally encased in ice, the work of Althea Grimmelwald.
In a passage leading inside, the floor ramps upward, leading past silent furnaces and into a large room. A tunnel had been carved straight through the middle of the ice clogging up the area. The room appeared to be a reception area, with rows of straight-backed chairs facing a massive desk and some filing cabinets, all trapped inside tons of ice. Blue-filtered daylight shone from a row of unreachable windows, beyond which was the street, a smear of indistinct gray. On the walls hung dozens of clocks, their stilled hands pointed every which way possibly to keep track of the time in different loops. Above them, directional signs pointed the way to certain offices: Undersecretary of Temporal Loops, Conservator of Graphical Records, Nonspecific Matters of Urgency, and Dept. of Obfuscation and Deferment. The tunnel came to an end at a fancy, balustraded staircase that was free of ice but awash in loose papers.
Miss Wren's room is a cozy room dimly lit by oil lamps and a rocking chair. The Ymbryne Council meeting place is a large room dominated by a massive oval table, its wood polished to a mirror shine. Portraits of famous old peculiars, not framed but drawn directly onto the walls in oil and charcoal and grease pencil. One was a face with wide, staring eyes and an open mouth, inside of which was a real, functioning water fountain. Around its mouth was a motto written in Dutch, which translates to: “From the mouths of our elders comes a fountain of wisdom.” Another one says: "Ardet nec consomitur" which translates to: “Burned but not destroyed.” A few windows have small telescope tunnels melted through them with mirror attachments that look down at the street below.
There is a makeshift hospital room, where a nurse with a bulging glass eye watches the injured. The nurse's room has a stool for the nurse to sit on.
The Map of Days is located at the Peculiar Archives.
History[]
Hollow City[]
In Hollow City, Jacob Portman and the other peculiar refugees travel here from their loop looking for Miss Wren, in order to turn Miss Peregrine back to her human form. At this time the entire building is covered by ice due to a young peculiar named Althea, who froze the building during an attack by wights and hollowgasts. After Olive shouts for Miss Wren, the peculiar children are met by the ymbryne, who takes them inside the building and attempts to heal Miss Peregrine overnight. The peregrine falcon is successfully changed back into a human, but the children, Miss Wren, and the other inhabitants of the building are shocked when they find a man instead of a woman, who is actually Miss Peregrine's evil, elder brother, Caul. Caul then captures all the peculiars and the ymbryne while killing Althea.