Order of the Scribes
The Order of the Scribes was a select group of apprentices charged with maintaining meticulous notes and records for their mentors, not limited to meeting minutes, task details, class notes and important appointments. These were the elite of the elite, selected not only for their incredible memories but for their trustworthiness. The rituals and rules of the Scribes were clouded in secrecy, and few were admitted into their select ranks. Betrayal within the Scribes was handled harshly, with penalties that included removing the tongues of Scribes who betrayed the secrets of the Order or the teachers for whom they served.
When the Order of the Scribes first came into existence, all records were kept in memories, as there was no method of maintaining written records--inscribe and forge were dreams of the future at this time. To be selected to be a scribe was the highest honor that could be bestowed upon an apprentice teacher--an honor achieved after years of hard work, study, and trials. It was a young member of the Order of the Scribes, an unknown DreamSeer by the name of Sabra, who, through her studies into the workings of train, and those of an almost-unknown and hoarded art called Inscribe, who developed a new method for Scribes to document the taskings of their mentors. Sabra taught her new talent to the other scribes who became invaluable to their mentors. For, without a Scribe-created "Quest", the mentor was unable to use the art of Train.
There came a time when Sabra and some of the other Scribes attained the halo, and became teachers themselves. At this point, the Order agreed to share their talents with trusted teachers and mentors, yet Quest continued to be known as an "apprentice art", used mainly by apprentices who had neared the completion of their training and were capable of accepting students of their own.
The art was lost at the time of The Great Loss. Most who possessed the art perished, and the few who survived, like Sabra, had forgotten the skill. Rumor has it that Sabra's Journal has been recovered and, with it, her notes on how the art was developed.
