To Asia Minor
Ignatius, the Letters to the Churches of Asia (Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Philadelphians, Smyrnaeans; and to Polycarp)
Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, under guard on the road to Rome
Six letters in a fortnight, written between guard posts, by a man with nothing left to lose.
- Catch rate
- Not found in the wild
- Base research
- 206
- Stat total
- 324
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.
Six letters, all short, all written in about a fortnight by a man being marched to his execution.
He is not building a case. He is saying the thing plainly, once, because there will not be another letter.
The middle recension settled the forgery question in the seventeenth century, and the text has been secure since.
Cited for this book
Ignatius was taken from Antioch to Rome under a guard of ten soldiers he calls leopards, and wrote seven letters on the way. Six of them go to churches on his own road through Asia — thanks for the delegations that met him, warnings about teachers who said Christ only seemed to suffer, and instructions to hold to the bishop. There were three recensions in circulation by the Middle Ages, a short, a middle and a long; Ussher and then Lightfoot established that the middle one is his, which is why these letters can be quoted at all.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | One Only Physician | Christology | Argument | 90 | 100% | 10 |
| 31 | My Charter Is Christ | Bible | Argument | 86 | 100% | 10 |
| 34 | Three Mysteries | Christology | Argument | 82 | 100% | 10 |
| 37 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |