A personal headcanon, which I leave open for debate: by
Scapegrace
on 2016-02-12 18:33:00 UTC
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Dark Civilian Aakmal was, er, prodded into thinking about his paper money scheme by Ye Scape-Grace. Y'see, rather than flax or spices or whatever, I think the true currency Ye Scape-Grace (who is at this point basically Baroness Iximaz's vizier, troubleshooter, and occasional purveyor of stabby) values is information: troop movements, reports from the Marizu League, title deeds, land grants, laws, codes, books of magic, all that sort of thing. And since a currency can't be just word of mouth, it is paper, and encoded in pictures. Printers are clever sorts, and old presses are titanic, and the written word is king in Plort because writing makes it real. It seems... apt.