Just to point this out - traditionally, books were made out of things besides paper.

parch·ment ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pärchmnt)
n.
1. The skin of a sheep or goat prepared as a material on which to write or paint.
2. A written text or drawing on a sheet of this material.
3. Paper made in imitation of this material.


vel·lum ( P ) Pronunciation Key (vlm)
n.

1. A fine parchment made from calfskin, lambskin, or kidskin and used for the pages and binding of books.
2. A work written or printed on this parchment.
3. A heavy off-white fine-quality paper resembling this parchment.


Neither of these require wood - bookbinders, design things that don't use paper, and thus don't require wood! Leather, sheep, and cow are commodities too.

And the cookie goes to!

Whichever admin approves a divine based on this. <3

Do you mean Design? o_O

Quiet, I just woke up.

Woodless divine made out of books!




Well, I sent this to Nejii:



We'll see if it's approved.

The vellum scroll they started us with is made from wood.

Vellum can refer to paper treated in such a way as to look like actual vellum, from what I understand.

Cant you design books that dont use paper... like with silk or cloth..

I thought this topic said "wordless books" at first.

Pages made of silk or cloth aren't going to hold ink well.

So long as you dont was it with soap ink on cloth stays for a while

Hmm, I was under the impression it didn't last terribly long with medieval inks on cloth.

It'll bleed through the pages.

Magic ink

Only bookbinders use magic ink.

Let's um.. just stick with wood pages. Leather to an extent, but.. wood.

Wood pages didn't exist for a very long time - before that, various skins were used. Why can't we use skins if we can use wood? I'm trying to look for ways to help out with the wood shortage - I don't see how this is a bad one.

Leather's a skin.

I don't see the problem with other skins as pages, but this just covers up the initial issue of there not being enough wood (Unless the Druids begin a harvest plan).

I could scribble a few cloth-page designs for my cartel since you asked though.

And I know leather is a skin, but it's skin that's been treated specially, so it isn't the same as requiring the corpse of a cow.

Are reeds a commodity? You could make papyrus, if so. But I don't think they are...