"Hm... Descriptive in a 'use exactly this much force' way or in a 'no loopholes or gray areas in the instructions' way?"

"Mostly the second, but the first helps."

"Sounds a bit like craftsmanship, or architecture. Or whatever else takes lots of planning or precision."

"Yeah, we have lots of overlap with the Craftspeople Guild."

"I knew it! I thought so, earlier."

She grins.

"So what lesson's first?"

"Oh first we should, like, get you officially in—uh, lemme go get Fin—"

"Sure, sure."

Seems like a good time to fish out her notebook and write detailed plans about a controllable lamp.

She returns with a guy!

"Hi! I'm Fin. What's your name?"

"I'm Grendyne."

"Huh. That's a strange name, not from around here?"

"No, not from here at all. But that's a long story."

"Oh well. And your friend?"

"Kaede, not an enchanter."

He nods. "Well, stuff here's mostly decentralised. Pretty much anyone who's been here long enough can get you in, start teaching you the ropes. There isn't much of a hierarchy but there's a sort of—subscription fee? In the form of mana, we have batteries."

"Sure. I was planning to do that for money while I learn this stuff. Where are they?"

"Out in the back, but you don't need to contribute right now, if you're just joining up, we'll explain stuff and you'll have a trial period and if you like it we can make everything official and stuff."

Shrug. "Either way."

"Right-o. So way it works here is that we share designs and help people who are just starting out to find their feet, figure out how to make stuff without wasting mana. We have occasional workshops where everyone makes the same thing to learn or practice certain useful concepts and mental habits, and the books are available to everyone of course. If you've been here long enough and people trust you you start getting titles but they come with more responsibility and trust—and so access to more mana from the batteries. And oh yeah, batteries, you can submit a project and if people like it you can get some mana from the batteries for it."

"How do the batteries give out mana anyway?" She considers acting suspicious it's metamancy but doesn't trust herself not to fumble it. Missing too much background knowledge.

"Oh they don't give you any mana back but they can transfer mana to other artefacts, including during artefact creation, so if you want to use some mana from a battery we'll give you a smaller one with the amount you'll be loaned and you can use that."

"Neat. I've been thinking about doing a little lantern for my next artefact - my first one is just... Way too bright, it almost burns."

"That's first artefacts for you, my first nearly put out my eye." There's some fondness in his voice, though.

"Yeah, I've been hearing I'm kind of lucky in that respect. And then I made this toy carriage thing-" Which she will have to modify and pour more mana into, to not be suspicious "-And a flying tree branch, but that didn't work very well at all, and now I'm here."

"Cool! Okay I'll register you, come with me?"

She follows.