Three months later, the world changed.
On an unassuming morning in the town of Aldrith, local scribes gathered at a wooden cart. Its cargo: the first shipment of SK Paper. Cream-colored, lightly textured, sealed with a fine wax stamp—an interlocked S and K inside a gear.
By midday, the buzz had reached the merchant halls. By dusk, minor nobles were sending emissaries to Kelrath. Within a week, the Darsha courier system was clogged with orders.
A scribe in the royal capital wrote in a letter, "It folds like silk but holds ink like vellum. The gods have given us scrolls anew."
SK Paper wasn't just affordable.
It was superior.