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 Caste of SilversmithsHere are relevant references from the Books where the Caste of Silversmiths is mentioned. While this group is not specifically titled a Caste, I include it here for reference. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its records and files; its cubicles for Smiths, Bakers, Cosmeticians, Bleachers, Dyers, Weavers and Leather Workers; its wardrobe and jewelry chambers; its tarncots, two of them, opening by means of vast portals to tarn perches fixed in the side of the cylinder; its training rooms, both for slaves and for guards, and for those learning the trade of the slaver; recreation rooms for the staff; eating places; and, of course, various pens, kennels and retention facilities; as well as a chamber in which slaves are processed, collared and branded; deliveries to the House of Cernus, both of foodstuffs and materials, and slaves, are frequent; it is not unusual that a hundred slaves be received in a given day; the total number of slaves in the house at any one time, a shifting population, of course, tends to be between four and six thousand. Assassin of Gor Book 5 Pages 111 - 112 "But what Warrior?" inquired a fellow at the table, a silversmith. . . . "Yes," said the Silversmith, "it would be good if a man such as Cernus were Administrator of the city." Assassin of Gor Book 5 Pages 231 - 232 I passed a fellow inlaying wood, and the shop of a silversmith, and stalls filled with baskets, some of which, grain baskets, were large enough to hold a man. In another place tanned, dyed leathers were hanging, purple, red, yellow. Tribesmen of Gor Book 10 Page 50 "Slave," said a woman's voice. Immediately I knelt, head down. I saw the sandals and robes of a free woman before me. "Where is the shop of Tabron, who is the worker of silver?" she asked. Fighting Slave of Gor Book 14 Page 178 A Corcyran merchant had brought charges against him, a matter having to do with a bowl, purportedly silver, but only plated, and one bearing a forged mark, misrepresenting it as the work of the silversmiths of Ar. Kajira of Gor Book 19 Page 225 |       
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