Goals
The Court of Scribes is dedicated to registering everything that has happened, is happening and will ever happen. They want to capture the complexity of the Fey courts in clear laws and make sure judges can hand out sentences based on facts registered in extensive libraries the court maintains. They are currently struggling with the chaos of re-indexing and re-writing the whole library, system of laws, titles, notaries and histories.
Hierarchy
The Highly Honorable Chief Bibliothecary: Franz Overmaster
Notable Archnotary: Mortimer Quibblemask
Codifier of Reciprocal Form Codes and Titles: Ezelbert Numberman
Chaos limiter of administrative sources: Marigold Runaround
Chancellor of Indices: Felorn Scribblethistle
Scrivener of the Third Circle: Lavinia Loophole
Warden of the Lexicon: Wilfred Deadlock
Vizier of Queries: Titinia Foldwright
Custodian of Margins: Grindlefax the Perplexing
Master of Permits: Quindrith Shufflebottom
Locations
With the normal Royal Palace Library being too small, the Chief Bibliothecary created a Domain of Delight: the Living Library. Every object in it is animated and instructed to follow the Laws Governing the Living Library. Scribes can be found all over the Royal Palace to assist other Courtiers with their information and legal needs, but rarely venture outside the Palace except the bravest who perform censuses or help in taxing and mapping the ever-changing Feywilds.
Etiquette
Themes
Undoubtedly the Quill. Not only does every member have their own personalized and almost certainly magical, if not animated Quill, all of their emblems, motifs, and symbols contain quills. They also use scrolls, books and the hexagram that is the basis of their shorthand.
Members of the Court of Scribes tend to carry books with them or have them float behind them. They write a lot, mumble to themselves and prefer straight-to-the-point conversation over the lavish introductions and pleasantries customary in the conversations of the other courts.
They dress simply, their coats often sporting many pockets filled with small scrolls, ink bottles and magical items that help them with their work.
The Scribes are hard-working to the point of being highly stressed. They like organizing things, but can get lost organizing their organization efforts, leading to more hectic there’s-method-to-the-madness structuring, stress and a doubling-down of directness, hierarchy and hard work.
Relationships
The Court of the Scribes is not heavily involved in day-to-day politics and intrigue, and if they are, tend to remain neutral. Individual members may, however, try to use their position to their advantage, or influence the web of intrigue. The court, being young and not wealthy of themselves, needs to constantly prove its worth and is therefore under pressure to help whatever powerful entities or courts is currently dominating politics in the hopes of gaining favor.
They have a tense and ineffective relationship with the Court of Gifts as they wish to codify laws around gift-giving to boost their importance as arbiters of gift value and keepers of outstanding favours. However, the Court of Scribes is making a mess of it.
Events
Foundation: The court did not rise until shortly after the Kildarian Retreat, for it was inspired by Kildar’s Scribes Guild by the Fey who returned to the Feywild during Hadar’s Apocalypse.