Yes a fundamental shift in how they see themselves and reality as a whole could happen, but as I said before I think that is up there with dwarfs deciding that K8P is a silly place.
Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties - an Advisor's Quest
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Yes a fundamental shift in how they see themselves and reality as a whole could happen, but as I said before I think that is up there with dwarfs deciding that K8P is a silly place.
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Then I doubt We has a concept of "endless life" at all, because concept of death is not really familiar to them. It's just life for them. Different mind and all that.
For We, books are part of mind, not body. To sacrifice a book is akin to sacrificing some of it's memories.
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While the Way may eat a lot, i suspect the pay of the whole staff is probably enough to cover the food and still leave money.
Pay them for all the jobs they do, and they can convert that gold to food and whatever they feel like would be useful.
Maybe they'll find enjoyment in fancy hats.
Or they catch Mathilde's "need more B O O K" thingy, which combined with they own relationship with books will result into constant search for more.
Given an entire library to peruse, I imagine something will catch their interest eventually. Hell, they could just stockpile cash to commission enchanted stuff if they wanted.
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That's, almost literally what we are paying them for.
It's one of the main perks of the job, all B O O K that is possible acquire for money.
Sinsystems
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On the subject of the We, one reason why I want to also teach them to be scribes (beyond the sheer efficiency they'd have, effectively being a printing press) is that doing so will likely make it so they can more efficiently store information. Like if they know how to make books then I predict that they will start making We memory books for important memories.
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You know, we should try and hurry up the development of cameras. That way, the We can have scrapbooks.
They'd still have that information recorded somewhere.
@Boney, you specified that spell creation through Colleges can't be commissioned:
Does it extend to Laurelorn? E.g. can we negotiate with House Tindomiel to try creating and properly codifying a spell by Mathilde specification, paying in favors or in precious metals / other raw materials Laurelorn is short on?
Separate question, can we commission custom one-off enchantments from them?
Does it extend to Laurelorn? E.g. can we negotiate with House Tindomiel to try creating and properly codifying a spell by Mathilde specification, paying in favors or in precious metals / other raw materials Laurelorn is short on?
Separate question, can we commission custom one-off enchantments from them?
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No one is saying they won't be allowed to leave, we're saying they aren't going to choose to. If they somehow diverge strongly from everything their psychology and physiology indicates, they aren't going to be chained to the Library.
EDIT: Apologies, I've just seen your follow-up post bowing out.
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Sinsystems
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They will do so at elven speeds, however, so, come back in a century
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Tell them the Dwarfs could do in half the time.
Competition is an amazing motivator
No. Elven spell creation is a process of decades, and Mathilde can't afford decades of work by House Tindomiel.
No. Enchantments are a military resource to Laurelorn.
Possibly.
Sinsystems
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That's all I needed to know, makes me want to also make the We scribes even more. Since it probably will mean that their species memory will become even better for all the We that split from the Library We.
Also I can imagine that will hopefully lead to Silk Parchment books for maximum library flex.
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The LibrarWe could stockpile money for the day they may eventually decide to split again, letting them hire enough carts and escorts for the the budding off colony to take however much prosthetic memory they may desire to their next destination. Along with anything else they might want. There's no guarantee of safety on the trip, but there never is.
Sinsystems
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If I had to guess there are probably some pretty impressive vaulted ceilings that could easily be used for web space.
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Some make that argument, but I'm honestly pretty sure they could and would mve.
Relocating a copy of each book within a friendly Karak isn't all that hard, especially with friendly dwarves around.
The issue with We scribes is that presumably we'll want to send our army of scribes out to copy books from other libraries and the We, can't really do that at all. Besides, much as I like giant spider librarians, I find the idea of a bunch of folks working with them and being totally blase about the giant spiders due to long experience to be a fun image.
I don't think the egglayers would like a room with open access. They seem very protective about them.
Also I just remembered how the we did payment for silk. Which was something like "the we took a long and hard look at economic theory and monetary systems, then decided to throw it all out and went "is worth twice the amount of protein as used for the webbing.""
Why would we want them to copy other libraries' books while the motivation of increased copying speed is that we can share our books much wider?
Getting other libraries' books on the cheap is not only the less valuable/interesting possibility created by The We, but also assumes that the other libraries are stupid. (In the sense that, once they see how fast your people can copy books and make their revenue streams irrelevant, will let spiders keep doing it)
The library isn't a detached building with easily delineated inside and outside and under. It is halls inside a mountain. New rooms will be carved out to accommodate whoever ends up being hired according to their needs, and whether those rooms count as inside the library or not is a really fuzzy question.
It's impossible to predict in advance the exact moral judgements they might eventually reach.