<div class="top-nav"> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Home">Home</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Character Main Page">Characters</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Factions Index">Factions</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Locations Index">Locations</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/World Lore">Lore</a> <a href="/mydndgame/publish/pages/Map">Map</a> </div> # Demelza Location: [[Rybalka]] Demelza is hardy and stout, a condition she attributes to hours spent in her shop bent over her inks. Fingers stained black with ink, the scribe is not an author but a craftsman. Part tanner, part alchemist, the scribe spends their time curing hide for vellum and mixing rare chemicals for inks. In a pretechnological world, the ability to read and write is neither common nor particularly valued. Heralds post and read proclamations, a constable or reeve might be able to read enough words in the typical legal document to make it out, but otherwise the act of letter-writing is reserved for priests and wizards and educated city-folk. Scribes therefore also act as aides for diplomatic communications. When the lord wants to send a message to their allies, the scribe is summoned. Scribes are expected to be conversant in many written languages and capable of translating at least between Common, Elvish, and Dwarvish, sometimes Draconic, and sometimes rare and obscure or dead languages found in the kinds of tomes recovered from ruins and dungeons. But of course the most valued use of a scribe is the crafting of scrolls! Magical scrolls require rare and unique chemicals to make inks as well as special tanning techniques to cure the vellum in a tannery. All parchment is made from cured animal hide, but vellum is especially durable, resistant to both flame and water, and well suited to holding the unique inks used in a magical scroll without running or fading over time. A scribe would never consider inking onto paper. A paper scroll wouldn’t survive long in the conditions the typical adventuring lord is used to. If a spellcaster of appropriate level is present for at least an hour, a scribe can craft a magic scroll in a fraction of the time it would take a wizard or sorcerer to do it alone. The time and cost are both reduced by 10% per level of the tannery. - Upgrade from Level 1 to Level 2 for 1,000 gp - 20% reduction in time and cost - Upgrade from Level 2 to Level 3 for 1,500 gp - 30% reduction in time and cost - Upgrade from Level 3 to Level 4 for 2,000 gp - 40% reduction in time and cost - Upgrade from Level 4 to Capstone for 2,500 gp - 50% reduction in time and cost # Session Reference - [[Rybalka Downtime]]