Alcuin’s Letters
Alcuin of York, Letters on the Saxons, the Avars, and Tithes
Alcuin of York
Writing to Arn of Salzburg before the Avar mission: do not do to them what we did in Saxony.
- Catch rate
- 24 / 255
- Base research
- 152
- Stat total
- 290
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
A campaign rather than a letter — he wrote to the king, to Arn of Salzburg, and to anyone else who would listen, for years.
He is arguing against his own patron’s policy, from inside his own patron’s house.
Augustine and the practice of the apostles, which are the two things Charlemagne’s court could not simply overrule.
Short letters, sent often, and he repeats himself on purpose.
Cited for this book
By 796 the Saxon wars had run twenty-four years and the Frankish law prescribed death for refusing baptism. Alcuin argued the other way: teach a man, then let him believe, then baptise him — and stop taxing converts before they have any reason to pay. He did not win. The argument was made anyway, four hundred years before the Wendish Crusade.
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Did the Apostles Take Tithes? | Ecclesiology | Argument | 78 | 100% | 10 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 34 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 38 | It Is Not Right to Use Force | Ecclesiology | Argument | 80 | 100% | 10 |
| 42 | Calmness and Moderation | Ethics | Stat shift | — | 100% | 10 |
| 46 | The Easy Yoke | Ethics | Argument | 90 | 100% | 5 |