Chapter 23:going back to work(Karna's POV)

It have being a while since I returned to Volon Therys to work. He has the genius idea of reassembling the bones of a dragon and putting them into a collection, together with another dragon preserved by taxidermy. The taxidermy was done by a Yi Tish artisan living in Sar Mell, as the Yi Tish are widely recognized for their advanced taxidermist techniques, and I was lucky that there was a Yi Tish taxidermist living as far as the Rhoyne.

My shadow othered the two items to be put inside two thick clear mirror domes commissioned by an artisan guild from Ar Noy. It was to be displayed in a public house, guarded by a special regime of the city guards. It would become the first museum in my city and the world. I have this deep desire to make my city recognized by a special characteristic, as each of the six great cities is widely recognized by something. I want my citizens to have something that they can feel proud of saying they are from here.

I aim to turn my city into the city of Libraries and Museums. With Vrisha's help, I was able to get closer to my dream. The city of libraries was getting closer, with my "invention" of the movable press, I already have a lot of copies of Rhoynar classics that I used to create a public library that I aim to make the biggest library in the known world. My "creation" of modern paper also helped a lot as previous books were written with parchment which was much more expensive. I popularized the production of paper within the city, but most of the paper ended up being consumed by the city itself.

I have already contacted The order of the maesters with the intent of buying every book exemplar they were willing to sell, though I doubt they would sell their most-priced knowledge, knowledge is still knowledge. Even if the maesters may not want to part ways with their precious knowledge, the order of the maesters already sells books because, although the Hightowers are rich, at least to Westeros standard, not even they can keep supporting a gold-swallowing beast like an organization on the level of the order of the maesters on their own.

I can only support it because I have been expanding my collections over the years and what the city gets from the clothes trade is much more than the Hightowers can obtain from Oldtown selling wine and food, as trade, in general, is much stronger in Essos than in Westeros.

I am also buying books from Ashai, but I will not put books that teach blood magic in the library as I don't think that's the best to be put in a public library.

I am just buying day-to-day things that include history, tales, culture, and so on. I am even buying a lot of books from Valyria, because as it said in the Art of War of Sun Tzu: "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles[...]". I try to obtain some classics from Yi Ti, Leng, Bayasabhad, Kayakayanaya, and Shamyriana, but because of the distance, it would be much harder.

Hearing this one would be wondering how I obtained classics from Ashai considering how far the place is. Simply, there is a wide market for Ashai's classics in Valyria, even if the Valyrian consider themselves superior to the red priests because they have dragons, they still have great interest in another kind that performs blood magic and use fire magic. Besides even at this time, it's not hard to see some red priests in western Essos, as the enthusiasm from their faith to convert the whole world to their one true god, is already very strong. They even achieved some results by enticing some minor dragon houses with their prophetical flames and converting them to the R'hollor faith. I think a R'hollor may be the first to travel around the world just in the hopes of finding more people to convert. Though the main fourteen houses of Valyria still act as a form of barrier impeding their complete conversion of the valyrians.

I also bought classics from the Kingdom of Sarnor. The Kingdom of Sarnor is a region of northern Essos along the shores of the Shivering Sea., filled with several city-states. The Forest of Qohor and Vaes Khadokh are to the west, while the Dothraki sea extends along the south. The Sarnori, the people of this region, became involved in the wars between the ancient Ghiscari Empire and the rising Valyrian Freehold. The Sarnori allied with Valyria during the Second and Third Ghiscari Wars, though during the Fourth, the rival Sarnori kings supported both sides.

After the fifth and final Ghiscari War, the Valyrians did not move on to conquer the Sarnori - just as they were in no hurry to conquer the still-independent Rhoynar city-states to the west, and the dragon lords were always busy with internal rivalries in Valyria itself. Sarnor is a trading partner with Valyria, and perhaps a useful buffer against raids by the nascent Dothraki mounted raiders from the northeast of Essos's central grasslands.

After the Doom of Valyria, they would take less than a century to fall, to the Dothraki. They ignored the horse-raiders threat for a long time and continued to fight each other, even allying with them to fight each other. Maybe I should try avoiding their doom as well because it would become a pain to the rhoynars to have to defend against the Dothraki, not because we fear them, but because unless we drown them all in the mother Rhoyne, they will keep coming back, to be defeated and run again and again to their enormous grassland. It's exhausting to only think about it.

How can this world have so many cultures that resume themselves to only raiding? If the Sarnori is nearly gone, with only one small city left, it might be an ironic and tragic development if most of their writing legacy can be found in a Rhoynar city.

I even got myself some copies from the Summer Islanders records in Tall Trees Town. They would surely be a pain to translate given that the Summer Islanders rely heavily upon histories recorded in highly complicated formal verse and memorized by rote and I don't have a Maester Gallard painstakingly translating and recording many of these in a book. I may have Jolhar who now how knows how to write in their language, high valyrian, an even rhoynish language; but even if he is loyal, he might kill me if I give him even more work... Jokes aside, although the problem is much lower with translating other records it still existed. So, I thought about a solution to the present problem that did not involve bankrupting the city and using every single learned people here as an organic translation machine.

The library would have a small steel wall, where, with an aquamarine steel knife, names would be carved of each contributor to the library. To be a contributor one could translate an untranslated copy of a book from the library or donate a new book to the library. The contributor's name would also be recorded in the library's official book. The library would honor them and rhoynar authors, especially those from here when they die.

Vrisha, my brotherly shadow, chose to become one with me again. I missed him already even though I know he did not die, but is with me. I already have a lot of things to do like, overseeing and improving the healthcare system in the city that I implemented before and a retirement system. I am glad that I didn't have to think about how I would implement sewerage, when I got here, I could just copy with some adaptations the one currently used in Sar Mell.

Yes, we rhoynar's have a very good sewage system and irrigation system and it did not use water magic as some might think. By what I guess through what is recorded to us about our ancient history, when we, the rhoynar people, were still a small sedentary tribe, the water mages were not only a magical protector, but they were a magical sewage system, a magical irrigation system and a magical crafter water could be used to craft to advanced constructions, cutting rocks and transporting them. With these mages, our societies quickly saw our population growth and the beginning of prosperity. But as time passes, our fields became too big to be irrigated by feel mages, our waste became too much to be filtered by them and our constructions became to be done with the effort of few men and women so, we tried gradually to find no magical solutions for anything we have done with magic, and gradually magic became only a war mechanism.

Besides work, things have been great with goddess Lhorulu, she is a nice woman, and probably the most cheerful lady I have ever known, sometimes she may be wild, but I think she can be quite kind as well. I found her super sexy and beautiful. She has smooth olive skin, dark-brown hair, and dark-brown eyes., and a perfect hourglass physique with lean muscles that do not take away her subtle feminine and cute beauty. Her appearance seems to perfectly merge an amazonian beauty with cuteness and a sort of innocence. Her beautiful smile shines as beautiful as moonlight. Her golden fields were so exotic, though I did not on them on purpose... She also has a nice smell. Though I am not sure if I want to marry her yet, I think I need to know her better first.

I am thinking of renaming the city. First, I thought of renaming it Dragon Fall, in honor of our victory in the Second Turtle War, but this name seems too Westerosi to my taste, like a castle's name. So after thinking for a while, I think I would name it Anga, which was the name of the original Karna's Kingdom. This world has a meaning in the rhoynish language and it means knowledge, which is very convenient to what I want to turn this city into, it's like fate is compelling me to name this city Anga.

So I did.