"It is the duty of the scribes not only to study and master the past but to relay and record the present." - Professor Markham[1]
The Scribe Quadrant is one of the four Quadrants of Basgiath War College.
General Information[]
On Conscription Day, candidates for the Scribe Quadrant must pass a written entrance exam in order to start their scribe training. Part of their exam would be about the history of Navarre and their complicated relationship with Poromiel as they are training to be the Navarre's historians.
The Scribe Quadrant is located across the river in a separate building than the Riders Quadrant at Basgiath.
Scribes start their day at around 5am. Scribes dedicate themselves to the custom of maintaining emotional composure as an extension of their work. This composure shows how earnest they are about their work, and how dedicated they remain. Smiling, or hugging their friends, is thus frowned upon and chastised. [2] Cadets are able to return home for the summer breaks during their three years of training.
Duties[]
It is the duty of the scribes not only to study and master the past but to relay and record the present. Scribes provide accurate depictions of the front lines, reliable information, and most importantly, veracious details to document history for the good of future generations.[3]
It is a scribe's responsibility to record all the incoming candidates on Conscription Day, as well as the cadets that cross Parapet into the Riders Quadrant. Scribe cadets, in conjunction with Captain Fitzgibbons, report to the Citadel every morning to announce the names of the cadets who died the prior day in front of the Riders Quadrant morning formation. Professor Markham, the Scribe Quadrant Curator, is responsible for co-teaching Battle Brief to the Riders Quadrant because the scribes have access to up-to-date relevant information about military movement.
The rider in charge of the rider's library sends a list of requests and returns to the Archives every night, and scribe cadets prepare and deliver the books to the rider cadet who is on Archive duty in the morning before breakfast.
Uniforms[]
Their uniforms are a set of robes with a cream tunic and a hood. The hoods are designed to keep the scribes from standing out against the tomes. It is a symbol that no one and nothing is more important than the documents and books in the Archives. The number of gold rectangles woven into the shoulder of their tunic indicates their year.
Ranks[]
The first-years are inducted as scribe cadets. Cadets are placed into squads and have different rotations. One of the rotations is archive duty. As cadets, they are also responsible not only for recording history, but to transfer information from the front lines as well.One of the paths that scribes can follow during their education is the "adept path." Only the highest ranked scribe cadets can follow this path as it is the hardest of all degrees for scribes. Every Curator of the Scribe Quadrant must have that degree. Cadets that follow this degree will rarely leave the Archives and will spend more time with Professor Markham than other scribes.[4]
Locations[]
The Archives[]
The door to the Archives is similar to a vault and the inside smells like parchment, book-binding glue, and ink. They have less fresh air as a part of the fire mitigation system With less air in the Archives, there is less risk that Navarre's history burns to the ground in a fire.[5]
The Archives are meant to have a copy or the original of almost every single book in Navarre. Only ultrarare or forbidden tomes are excluded. It is notable that The book "The Fables of the Barren", which is a book of fables about venin and wyverns, or anything similar was not included in the Archives.
The Sublevel Royal Vaults[]
The sub level vaults are highly secret.
Quotes[]
"There is nothing more sacred than the Archives. Even temples can be rebuilt, but books cannot be rewritten" - Colonel Daxton's Guide to Excelling in the Scribe Quadrant
"Your mother has never understood that while riders may be the weapons of a kingdom, it's the scribes who have all the real power in the world." -Father Sorrengail to Violet Sorrengail.
"It only takes one desperate generation to change history - even erase it." - Father Sorrengail to Violet Sorrengail.
"One generation to change the text. One generation chooses to teach that text. The next grows, and the lie becomes history." - Tairn.
Notable Members[]
Teachers[]
- Professor Lewis Markham
- Captain Fitzgibbons
Students[]
Alumni[]
- Father Sorrengail
- Colonel Daxton
- Sagar Olsen: First Curator of the Scribe Quadrant , author of The Journey of the First Six
- Captain Madilyn Calros: Twelfth Curator of the Scribe Quadrant, translated The Journey of the First Six, A Secondhand Account into the Common Language
- Colonel Phineas Cartland: Twenty-seventh Curator of the Scribe Quadrant, translated and redacted for academic consumption The Journey of the First Six, A Secondhand Account
- Grato Burnell: Curator of the Scribe Quadrant, author of United Navarre, a Study in Survival