Sclera

A town of about 15,000 inhabitants that specialises in precision manufacturing and knowledge industries. The town has a collection of libraries dating back to Ember's destruction of the inhabitants in the first century, and has a series of knowledge guilds that record information.

Sclera was founded in the first few years Post Landing, and the inhabitants of the city were wiped out by Ember in the first century PL. The city itself, however, was undamaged and after Ember's death became inhabited once again. However, Sclera consistently found itself besieged from a variety of angles, and developed a significant network of underground bunkers, storage and living spaces for its inhabitants. After joining the CIS in 812, Sclera began to use these storage sites for its valuable information industry, which grew larger and larger after becoming world renowned. Currently it contains copies of most of the information that can be copied in the Borrowed Land.

Sclera's dedication to knowledge collection and information retrieval has made it noticeably possessive and greedy. The rulers of Sclerian society have developed two primary guilds as an organised way of harvesting information and storing it: the Episclera finds information and the Choroid stores and organises it. These two groups have developed paramilitary arms which develop the Sclerian libraries more completely.