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[the-tharns-speak]

Is your web device literally made of silk? Who made it? I found mine in an old temple, relics of Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil, or so we thought. - Marcus

According to my research into the matter, the World Wide Web was originally the project of Mephala... or it was made in her name at the very least. A magical connection to spread (mis)information to any part of the world at moment's notice? It could have Mephala written on it in big flaming letters and it wouldn't be more obvious. Besides, it is called the Web.

I reckon that the name tablet of silk comes from the spider silk. By no means do spiders produce an actual silk, but we still call it that.

However, and I think that this is also important to not, Mephala grew bored of this Web somewhen in the middle of the Merethic Era and its usage practically disappeared with the fall of the Ayleids. It was actually Vivec, the living god of the Tribunal etc. etc., who resurrected the practice. So currently the Web is under his patronage, which I suppose explains all those hot singles in everyone's areas.

The Clockwork Apostles - or at least one Clockwork Apostle whom I happen to know - are capable of reproducing the tablets of silk (which are so common for artifacts that they don't deserve a capital letter, there are bundles of them, they aren't unique). They are called more elusively "devices" (Brilliant minds these Apostles, but they are very bad with names, Eustaar especially), and... admittedly they are much lighter to carry around than a carved slab of stone. Some of them can fold! They are a bit more difficult to charge than my tablet which requires starlight, but convenience always has a price.