Berinfilaure

The city is most known for its bookbinding industry. The printing press is still in its infancy on Tellanor, but there is high demand for binding due to magical scribing methods. Indeed, there are many artisan binders who will argue with stubborn adamance that their particular method of binding is exclusively the most advanced, penultimately perfect process. These conversations are understandably tiring for people who are not bookbinders, or those in the industry whose passions for their work are less intense. It is conceivably normal that people passionate about subjects have a natural inclination to gravitate toward each other, but the population of Berinfilaure have long encouraged passionate binders to meet in certain cafés, restaurants and taverns in order to partition passion to places people can choose to avoid.

While it is untrue to say that Berinfilaure is the only city with bookbinders, it certainly is the most famous. Bookbinders passionate about their craft travel to Berinflaure from far and wide, and the most skilled will often settle in the city, taking students and accepting commissions. To have one's work bound in Berinfilaure lends the work an affective air of respectable gravitas. All bookbinders who work in Berinfilaure must belong to the Berinfilaure Bookbinder Fellowship to legally practice or study under a bookbinder within the walls of Berinfilaure.

History

Berinfilaure has a history reaching back to the old empire, when it was a town on a trade route. The passing of commerce enriched the settlement. In these dark days, scrolls were the only means of keeping information in one contiguous format. Because the production of scrolls relied on strips of vellum or parchment, some of these scrolls were of an unwieldy length or weight. At the same time, smaller scraps of vellum and parchment were more readily accessible. Of course, collections of sheaves predated the primordial Berinfilaure bookbinders, but there was no organised, systemic practice, nor any industry. It was Laurent the Crimson, an elven scholar, who was the first person to call himself a bookbinder, and it was he who revolutionised the world by creating the various tools now common in any bookbinder's kit.

Alternative Name(s)

The Burg of Bookbinders