MarcoP > 07-05-2021, 04:09 PM
(07-05-2021, 03:28 PM)Koen G Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.On the other hand, for an enciphered document, the VM is absolutely massive, overshadowing all other enciphered creations that came before it.
Scarecrow > 08-05-2021, 07:15 AM
(07-05-2021, 01:55 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.They did reuse the system for more things: herbal things, cosmological things, astrological things, bizarre story things, historical things, pharmaceutical things, etc. They just bound them all together in one big manuscript.
Scarecrow > 08-05-2021, 08:20 AM
(07-05-2021, 01:39 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Keep in mind that the time period was feudal, medieval Europe. Late medieval yes, but still a feudal society. It would not have worked the way we imagine it today with a wealthy capitalist hiring a group of wage workers. It would have been a feudal lord with a noble title who had a large retinue, like a small army of servants who pledged their loyalty only and exclusively to him and his family, their liege lords if you will. Sure, the system was beginning to fray at the seams after the Black Death, but the feudal social order still existed in the 15th century.
(07-05-2021, 01:39 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
geoffreycaveney > 08-05-2021, 02:34 PM
(08-05-2021, 08:20 AM)Scarecrow Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.(07-05-2021, 01:39 PM)geoffreycaveney Wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.
So to get to the point, I expect that in this scenario, the few trusted scribes and clerks who were given the task of performing the actual physical writing of the text of the secret cipher manuscript in the secret script would have been entrusted with the secrets. Perhaps different sets of secrets for the "Hand 1" scribe writing in "Language A", the "Hand 2" scribe writing in "Language B", etc.