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We talked about how scribes and other such recorders were highly valued, and to a lesser extent why. Now we get to see why.
It may be a bit tropey/stereotypical for a fantasy setting based on any part of Pacific Asia to have a lot of paper to jot things down, but what's the alternative? No one records anything? Efficiency may be a forward thinking and moving concept, but important to that is the ability to look or go back and see where you've come from, either to get a sense for how far you've come, or to correct for an "unexpected" error.
Regardless of the philosophy or practicality, any noble worth their station has a team of scribes at their disposal to aid in the management of their field, and a dedicated space for them to do their job, with larger or more important positions having larger spaces for them.
Meanwhile, any scribe worth their station not only has great penmanship that can be employed at speed, but an efficient system of organizing their work for future and immediate recall, should their patron require it.
Of course there isn't a standard of organization, across provinces or even within them. Hell, a single town may have two different industries that can employ writers, and those two record keeping groups may have vastly different storage structures.
Even so, if they're good enough at what they do, what you might see as a mass of parchment on the wall, they'll see as a perfectly sorted accounting of things past.

If you want to read Advent From Elsewhere right from the start, check out the first chapter here !

Art by Principenegro

Description
We talked about how scribes and other such recorders were highly valued, and to a lesser extent why. Now we get to see why.
It may be a bit tropey/stereotypical for a fantasy setting based on any part of Pacific Asia to have a lot of paper to jot things down, but what's the alternative? No one records anything? Efficiency may be a forward thinking and moving concept, but important to that is the ability to look or go back and see where you've come from, either to get a sense for how far you've come, or to correct for an "unexpected" error.
Regardless of the philosophy or practicality, any noble worth their station has a team of scribes at their disposal to aid in the management of their field, and a dedicated space for them to do their job, with larger or more important positions having larger spaces for them.
Meanwhile, any scribe worth their station not only has great penmanship that can be employed at speed, but an efficient system of organizing their work for future and immediate recall, should their patron require it.
Of course there isn't a standard of organization, across provinces or even within them. Hell, a single town may have two different industries that can employ writers, and those two record keeping groups may have vastly different storage structures.
Even so, if they're good enough at what they do, what you might see as a mass of parchment on the wall, they'll see as a perfectly sorted accounting of things past.

If you want to read Advent From Elsewhere right from the start, check out the first chapter here !

Art by Principenegro