As soon as Brand entered Turaman's house, the first thing he saw was a floor of black pine wood, glossy enough to reflect, covered with scattered manuscripts. He turned his head to the left and saw a thick big book placed on a wooden table—the invention of paper in this world is not very advanced. To write on rough pages, people often needed to make a large width, then cover it with cowhide fixed on wooden frames. Therefore, books were time-consuming to transport, laborious, and prone to damage.
Although the Kingdom had noble libraries and the Royal Academy, those were only places for merchants, minor nobles, and the offspring of the landlord class to enjoy education. Even in wealthy countries, well-off citizens would prefer to send their children to various workshops as apprentices.
