What looks like an ordinary sheet of parchment, but once coated in a special substance that comes with the roll, allows the user to transfer handwriting or printing into the blank sheet. The special paper and transfer liquid was created by the thief and alchemist Zur Effrite before his capture and imprisonment.
The alchemical formula to treat the parchment and create the transfer solution has been floating around thief and assassin guilds ever since, though most versions are ironically inaccurate copies of the original.
To copy a sheet of handwriting or print, the user must spread out the sheet to be copied on a flat surface and place the blank parchment on top. They then drop a single drop of the transfer solution over the parchment and spread it out with their hands. As the ink on the page below interacts with the covered parchment, the transfer begins and takes roughly 2 minutes depending on the complexity of the transfer.
The sheets are typically sized to A3 (29.7cm x 42cm or 11.7in x 16.5in) and come in waxed canvas rolls for ease of packability for the counterfeiter on the go.
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