Dida
Didache Fragment
Unknown — an early church community, c. A.D. 50–120
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A worn leaf of the Two Ways. Codex Hierosolymitanus, they say.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 64
- Stat total
- 181
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.
Dida is a single surviving leaf, and even the complete Didache vanished from every library for centuries until one copy was found in 1873. So little surviving text means low Stamina — it cannot absorb much argument before it must close.
The Didache is a manual that trains new believers how to live. Instruction is gentle work — Dida was never written to win fights, so its Contend is modest.
Nobody disputes what this leaf actually SAYS — the words of the Didache are secure, even though the whole book reached us through a single Greek manuscript. A certain text holds its ground: Dida defends better than its size suggests.
For most of history almost no one read the Didache — one manuscript carried it to us — so few debaters recall it quickly. Low Popularity: Dida usually speaks late.
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 | Two Ways | Ethics | Argument | 40 | 100% | 25 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 4 | Question the Premise | Rationality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
| 8 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 15 |
| 10 | Catechetical Charge | Ethics | Argument | 60 | 100% | 15 |
Read it: The Two Ways
The passages the Scriptorium holds on screen, word for word from a public-domain translation. Written in Koine Greek.
“There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways. The way of life is this. First of all, you shall love the God that made you; secondly, your neighbour as yourself. And all things whatsoever you would not have befall yourself, neither do to another.”
Didache 1.1–5 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“Bless them that curse you, and pray for your enemies, and fast for them that persecute you; for what thank is it, if you love them that love you? Do not even the Gentiles the same? But love them that hate you, and you shall not have an enemy.”
Didache 1.7–10 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“My child, flee from every evil and everything that resembles it. Be not angry, for anger leads to murder, nor jealous nor contentious nor wrathful; for of all these things murders are engendered.”
Didache 3.1–5 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“You shall not hate any man, but some you shall reprove, and for others you shall pray, and others you shall love more than your life.”
Didache 2.7 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
Anonymous — an early Christian community, most likely in Syria, somewhere between A.D. 50 and 120. Not a letter and not a treatise: a training manual, written to hand Gentile converts a whole way of life before they were baptized.
The complete Greek text hangs on ONE manuscript — Codex Hierosolymitanus 54, copied A.D. 1056, found by Philotheos Bryennios in 1873. For every century before that, the church had lost it.
Chapters 1–6 are the Two Ways: life and death, laid side by side. That is the part you are holding. The manual has ten more chapters, and they are about how a church actually runs.