Tal, and welcome to my library! Here is a brief description on what my Caste Scribe does and is all about.

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An Introduction to the Caste of Scribes
The Caste of Scribes is one of the five High Castes of Gor. It is generally held to be the highest Caste after the Initiates, although this varies by city - as does the ranking of the Initiates themselves. The Caste of Scribes concerns itself with the acquisition, storage, and dissemination of knowledge. The Caste Color of the Scribes is Blue. They generally wear long robes, which like the academic robes of historical Terran institutions are often tattered and worn as Scribes have better things to do than worry about the state of their robes. Scribes in general are very circumspect and proper in their speech and action, with a concern for Caste demarcation and precision in language. The Caste of Scribes includes lawyers, judges, librarians, teachers, and almost any other field where large amounts of abstract learning are required.

As a High Caste, and of course as the Caste of the keepers of information, Scribes hold the Second or Double Knowledge, and are aware of the existence of Earth and the nature of the physical world. Given the love of Scribes for knowledge, any knowledge, it is not impossible that one might find a Scribe who could speak or read one or more Terran languages, pulled from a slave girl, simply for the sake of knowing it. A scroll in English would be treasured by a Scribe every bit as much as one in Gorean, even if he could not read it, simply because it was knowledge.

Scribes are not, by and large, scientists - that distinction belongs to the Builders, for the world of physical science, and the Physicians, for the world of biological science. However, a Scribe with an interest might study almost anything, and given that knowledge is their field one should not be too surprised with a Scribe who knows the workings of optics, ballistics, or physiology, although he would be very unlikely to be actively contributing to such a field. Someone who wrote fiction or poetry would not be a Scribe, but a Poet or Singer - Scribes deal in knowledge, not entertainment.

The most famous example of the Scribes in the novels of Gor is Torm of Ko-ro-ba, Although he was rather derisive of the combat training given to Tarl by the Older Tarl, he was a true friend and a very brave man, although he took great pains to conceal this fact.

Although Scribes are not skilled with weapons nor the arts of combat it should never be forgotten that men of the Caste are free men, Gorean men, and are not to be underestimated. A slave girl who thinks that without the Scarlet tunic or a sword a man is not to be pleased, and completely, does so at her peril.