Aristides Frag.
Apology of Aristides (Armenian fragment)
Aristides of Athens
Two chapters, in Armenian, that nobody believed.
- Catch rate
- 150 / 255
- Base research
- 70
- Stat total
- 190
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.
Two chapters out of seventeen. Almost nothing of the book, and it was almost everything anyone had for eleven years.
What survives is complete and uncontested — Defend measures certainty, not size.
Renan declared it a forgery on sight. It took a manuscript at Sinai to change the room’s mind.
Cited for this book
In 1878 the Mechitarist fathers on San Lazzaro, in the Venetian lagoon, printed two chapters of an Armenian text headed with the name of Aristides. Renan pronounced it spurious. He was wrong, and it took eleven years and a monastery on Sinai to prove it.
Development
A book develops as it is read — the fragment becomes the work, the work becomes the corpus.
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 | The Mover and Controller | Natural Theology | Argument | 62 | 100% | 20 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 5 | Steelman | Rationality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
| 9 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 11 | Gods Under Guard | Rationality | Argument | 74 | 100% | 15 |