Third person POV
The school year in its first month went well, with every student in Ruslav doing well and getting along with each other in their new places of education. For Basilio, his reforms for the education sector was successful. Azmiya and others really saw his reforms as effective and good.
Basilio's successful education reforms had caught the attention of a notebook-making guild from Sárga Madár, which sent a package of a handmade spiral-bound notebook and a handmade black pen with a wooden pen body. Upon receiving it, Basilio was astonished, especially with a nice handwritten note complimenting Ruslav's first school year as a country that comes with them.
At first, he couldn't believe that a guild (in this case of the sender, a guild called Barry Stationery) would make such modern-sounding items from Earth. But his skepticism disappeared when Fritzi, Chivo, and a few others explained to him that a type of guilds does exist and has been for over 500 years. According to them, these guilds were formed for the production of notebooks, pens, pencils, and other Otherworlder items that were simple in composition, yet challenging in the level of craftsmanship.
This was topped with Fritzi's local legend from Safir of an Otherworlder who had access and the formulas for the modern pens. According to that legend, he died to an attack by the Vamzoms (this was said to have happened 10 years before the Vamzoms split into its present 5 groups) in Safir, and the formulas for his foreign novelties are said to have been lost or destroyed with him. It seemed that these Otherworlder tech would never be replicated.
However, according to that same Safir legend, one commoner, who was a blacksmith was said to have reverse-engineered it by dismantling one black ballpoint pen, studying its components and composition, and making a replica out of his analysis. Ever since making his first prototype, according to the legend that had been immortalized into history after confirming its authenticity, the unknown commoner had established his guild dedicated to making pens and notebooks (the latter which came later). And ever since then, the apprentices under him started making guilds for their production in their hometowns, further spreading their production and availability, though their average retail prices for them remained the same almost 500 years later. Also, they and their descendants also discovered formulas for highlighters, crayons, markers, and brush pens, further diversifying the variety of the Otherworlder stationery.
And thus, this was the story (in the format of a legend) of the origins of the stationery guilds.