Letters of Peter
Peter III of Antioch, Letters to Cerularius and to Dominic of Venice (1054)
Peter III, patriarch of Antioch
A stack of letters from a man who disliked the West, distrusted the argument, and spent the whole crisis trying to keep everyone at the table.
- Catch rate
- 22 / 255
- Base research
- 178
- Stat total
- 306
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.
The whole correspondence survives, both directions, and it is how the affair is known at all. Very little of this man has been lost.
He is not trying to win. Every letter is aimed at stopping something rather than defeating someone, which is a different and weaker kind of blow.
Almost impossible to dislodge. He grants the other side its complaints, agrees where he can, and still will not move off unity.
Antioch is a long way from either capital, and every letter took weeks. He was answering a fire by post.
Cited for this book
The third patriarch, standing between the other two, and the only man in the affair who spent it trying to prevent rather than to win. He did not like Latins and said so plainly. He begged Cerularius not to break the church, was ignored, and struck the pope’s name from his own diptychs when he was told to. Fortescue, a Latin partisan with no reason to flatter him, wrote that there are very few people in this history for whom one feels so much sympathy.
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 | They Are Our Brothers | Ecclesiology | Argument | 72 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 28 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 32 | Both Customs | Ecclesiology | Argument | 78 | 100% | 15 |
| 36 | The Source of Life | Christology | Argument | 80 | 100% | 10 |
| 40 | A Sin of Both | History | Argument | 86 | 100% | 10 |
| 44 | Everywhere Tears | Ecclesiology | Argument | 85 | 100% | 10 |