Altaïr would have to watch the skies for these so-called air carriers.

"Why does anyone want books and ink? To read and write. Everyone must do it here, even the children. All your signs are lettered instead of symbols. It cannot be so strange."

Altaïr thought it was a silly question. Surely this land wasn't so different that books and ink were nonexistent. How did the people here write then, with clay and stylus?