Ritual for Renewing Books
Borrowing books from Library Inn is not allowed except by written permission of Shiv Moonsong, herself. Even Nanguu Hearthstone cannot borrow one of the cookbooks that they wrote without a slip from Shiv.
Borrowing books provides no useful return service to the library. Also, people are careless and accidents happen all the time leading to damage and destruction of precious pages and volumes. However, renewing books allows the library's collection to remain legible, and patrons
Execution
Renewing a book requires the person to first be a registered guest of the inn, an Entitled Patron of the library, or a student at the Capitalla University of Arts and Literature.
Once such status is obtained, they may apply for an interview with a librarian. During this interview, the applicant discusses with the librarian the book they want to renew and why. The librarian then determines whether or not to grant the Applicant's renewal request.
Approved Renewers are assigned a quiet area and provided a copy quill and two blank books, along with the book they wish to renew. They then spend time copying the book. The initial copy, they keep for themselves, while the second copy (the one written by the copy quill's duplicate) is added to the library's For Sale collection.
Both copies -- the one the Renewer keeps and the one the library sells -- are checked for accuracy. Gross errors and blatant alterations result in the destruction of both copies, and the revocation of the patron's permission to renew. Patrons guilty of blatant tampering (such as removing key details from a historical text or altering context of a biography or introducing superstitions into science texts) are banned from Library Inn.
Shiv is a woman after my own heart.
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Thank you! She is essentially the goddess of history, folklore, and story. Though, sometimes I question whether she realizes that?
Haly, the Moonlight Bard
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