Renowned hill dwarf goldsmith, blacksmith, and publisher Johannes Gutenberg, currently a guest of the Doge of Venice, sits in attendance of the emergency convention of the Council of Ten, listening to the council members loudly arguing over how best to drive off the dragon. His thoughts turn to how the news of the dragon’s rampage must be quickly and widely disseminated throughout Europe...
If only there were some more efficient means of printing than copying everything by hand... Perhaps I could devise some kind of...moveable type...a printing press to make multiple copies of the same manuscript without need of hand scribing...