Bloor West Athenaeum

Seat of the Toronto Mysterium, the Athenaeum sits at the edge of the University of Toronto's St. George campus. The building is a large tower rising six stories comes up one side of the building, its top originally designed for observation of the stars and weather. A sign outside suggests that it is a University of Toronto property, a private building presumably holding administration or records of some sort. Inside, rooms on the first floor are set aside as public reading rooms, to be used by members of the Assembly under Mysterium supervision. Rooms upstairs house offices, workrooms, and rooms capable of holding a far greater number of Mystagogues than have actually resided within the Toronto Caucus since the 19th century. Downstairs houses the Athenaeum's massive library, stacks of books laid out around desks and couches and, at their center, a copy of the Corpus Mysteriorum under glass, its pages turned each day to a new lesson on the fundamental nature of magic. The bottom of the tower houses the Mithraeum, the sacred ritual room of the Mysterium, and its top holds the offices of the Curator and Heirophant. Spells layer the building inside and out, the legacy of decades, centuries really, of sorcery and scholarship. (NOTE: in the World of Darkness, the Athenaeum replaces the current site of the Munk School of Global Affairs)