The Nation of Earth

I have not seen them either. My only source is the pen of a neighbouring nation.

Their nature

They carry and they keep. They speak without noise, they think slowly, they remember long — and they are fixed in their thinking too. No one knows iron as they do. — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b

The guild

A master’s word is a bond within the guild; the apprentice’s pen writes in the master’s name. — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b

The virtue of keeping

To keep what one has is their highest virtue — in the scribe’s words, “enough so that they would rather a thing perished as it is than survived by changing.” — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b

Where they lie

Fire on one side, the water nation on the other. The scribe calls theirs “a country thinned between two neighbours.” — A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b

The scribe’s judgement

To keep is a right. But when the thing kept no longer serves anyone, one must name the difference between keeping and burying.

— A Treatise Upon Devran, leaf 12b

What I do not know

Their cities, their number, how the guild actually works — I hold none of it.