Good librarians,

I wonder if I could ask of you if either of you, in your time here in Sanctuary, ever came across any gnome records, writtings or maps of the local area that may indicate or be related to mining surveys or geological maps?

The reason I ask is that I am planning on leading a prospecting expedition and hope to have the best information that is available to narrow done the area in which we can look for viable ore bodies that the city can exploit.

If the gnomes are anything like my people, the dwarfs, then they would have kept records and maps of the surveys they would have conducted before building this city.

I do hope that you can help me in this matter, even if it is just a scrap of old parchment with a relevent bit of inforamtion that survived this cities calamity, all would be helpful.

I can be contacted at Barak-Tor,

Kind regards

Porki Thule

Chief Mining Officer Clan Stoutheart Mining Company

Stoutheart Mining Officer Thule:

I am afraid that all ancient Svirfneblin texts I have ever encountered have been concerned with the machine(s) of Dunwarren. I would mention that House Toboerski attempted to claim what was thought to be a barren mine near what is now a smoking pit in the ruins, but I've heard your clan already mines gems of various quality from deep within those shafts.

May the knowledge you seek have survived the ages, Varlam Nikitovich 24 Ches 152

Curator Varlam Nikitovich,

thank you very much for your speedy reply.

Yes indeed my clan is pursuing a claim on the mine in the ruins near the smoking pit. It is, however, no more than a prospectors or fossicors mine. It yields gemstones of varying quality and the odd vein of gold but nothing that would be worthwhile mining on a large scale basis.

Yet don't you find it a little odd that only records and notes on the machine are left? I would have thought that there would be a plethora of records and notes that would have covered many a mundane item, trade or function of the city such as records of trade, items sold, tax records, census information, bills of sale & purchase, legal documents, even items of literature like religeous texts, stories, songs and poems.

Perhaps there lies an area yet to be discovered in this city that houses such a trove of archieves? In your researchs, has anything like this ever been mentioned?

Kind regards

Porki