Smyr
Ignatius to the Smyrnaeans (chs. 1–3)
Ignatius, bishop of Antioch
Two chapters, written on the road to the beasts.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 64
- Stat total
- 180
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.
Smyr is just three chapters of one short letter — a small text, so a small pool of Stamina.
Ignatius wrote this under guard, on the road to his execution, against teachers who said Christ only SEEMED to suffer. A martyr’s testimony argues hard: high Contend for a fragment.
Ignatius’ letters survive in three competing versions, and scholars had to work out which one is authentic (the Middle Recension — this one). That leftover uncertainty costs Smyr some Defend.
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 | Truly Born, Truly Ate | Christology | Argument | 40 | 100% | 25 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 4 | Silence | Christology | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
| 8 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 15 |
| 10 | He Truly Suffered | Christology | Argument | 60 | 100% | 15 |
Read it: Truly
The passages the Scriptorium holds on screen, word for word from a public-domain translation. Written in Koine Greek.
“…fully persuaded as touching our Lord that he is truly of the race of David according to the flesh, but Son of God by the divine will and power, truly born of a virgin and baptized by John that all righteousness might be fulfilled by him, truly nailed up in the flesh for our sakes under Pontius Pilate and Herod the tetrarch.”
Ignatius, To the Smyrnaeans 1.1–2 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“For he suffered all these things for our sakes, that we might be saved; and he suffered truly, as also he raised himself truly; not as certain unbelievers say, that he suffered in semblance — being themselves mere semblance.”
Ignatius, To the Smyrnaeans 2.1 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“For I know and believe that he was in the flesh even after the resurrection; and when he came to Peter and his company, he said to them: Lay hold and handle me, and see that I am not a demon without body. And straightway they touched him, and they believed, being joined unto his flesh and his blood.”
Ignatius, To the Smyrnaeans 3.1–2 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
“Wherefore also they despised death — nay, they were found superior to death. And after his resurrection he both ate with them and drank with them as one in the flesh, though spiritually he was united with the Father.”
Ignatius, To the Smyrnaeans 3.2–3 (trans. Lightfoot, public domain, lightly modernized).
Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, c. A.D. 107–110. He wrote this from Troas, under military guard, on the road to be killed by beasts at Rome. He knew where the road ended when he wrote it.
Count the word "truly." Ignatius is not being repetitive — he is answering people who said the Christ only SEEMED to have a body. Every "truly" is a nail.