New Item: Kins Book (not a social network)

[Kamekono]

Hello!
I'd like to hear from the community if the following item is something you would want (and use) or not.

"Kin Book" [or a better name]
An item that holds the knowledge of multiple kins, allowing you to describe several people at once.

How it works:
Similarly to how parchment works, it would allow you to describe several people (I'm thinking 20 to 50) on it. Anyone who reads it will memorise all the people in the book, just like they would with a bunch of descriptions on parchment.
As long as there are empty pages, you should be able to add kins to it.
It would possibly work the with memorised-only characters too.


Recipe:
It would certainly involve parchment, either leather or hardened leather (for the cover), possibly pigment. Maybe a beautiful dream?

Benefits:
- It would speed up the process of describing multiple kins.
- It would be a great tool to exchange with neighbours: you could give them a book containing descriptions of all of your villagers, making it easier too neighbours to recognise each others (including alts and those who never get out of the palisade).
- It would probably make more people use the describe ability, and allow for village-specific or topic-specific books (eg. "Friends", "Dangerous folks", and so on).
- It would save a lot of cupboard space to those who actually use parchments to keep an archive.

I believe currently too few people use descriptions and parchments, mostly because of the time it requires to exchange infos about multiple people.

Any thoughts?

[Aceb]

Parchments are used very commonly to describe evildoers, it is not as rare as You think.

- It would speed up the process of describing multiple kins.

Something like this is a very desired by especially faction people to quickly have everything memorized after death (one of few penalties if it does happens).

Also it is potential security issue where all of your village/realm members memorized in such book will get into wrong hands but hey, cool idea.

[Kamekono]

Parchments are used very commonly to describe evildoers, it is not as rare as You think.

True, but still underused to describe other people IMO.

Also it is potential security issue where all of your village/realm members memorized in such book will get into wrong hands but hey, cool idea.

It could also have trade value because of it.

[Ardennesss]

Not really a logical argument against it, currently people use dedicated discord channels with hearthsecrets for managing village characters. It's pretty tedious for not really a good particular reason. +1

[Mr_Bober]

+1
No more spreadsheets for kins! YAY!

I can already see myself going around the neighbourhood giving books of my village to everyone like "Haaaaaave you met us?"

[shubla]

Good idea, you could maybe create it from your kinlist, but this would only "describe" the kins.
Then your kins could right click the kinlist and "write their name" in it, then you would also see their online status hwen you use the kin list etc.

[jorb]

Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about that one. Losing your kin list is one of the realer effects of death.

[Kamekono]

Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about that one. Losing your kin list is one of the realer effects of death.

True, but then we shouldn't be able to describe them on parchments either. It would work the same way, with the main difference of having one item instead of several ones.

I can already see the first printing of "Stranger Danger - A kin guide to big bad evil guys" being sold at the community fair or something.