Virgil, Aeneid
Not an attack on the faith, but not Christian teaching either.
Rome’s national epic. Virgil asked for it to be burned; the Empire declined.
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.
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 | Arms and the Man | History | Argument | 55 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Fictional Story | Allegory | Story | — | 100% | 20 |
| 50 | Speak Latin | History | Status | — | 100% | 5 |
How to read these. In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other. Each thing a book can do in a debate is a move, and most moves carry a real quotation — the words the book puts on the table when it uses that move.
Strong against lists the opposing books and arguments a move was written to answer. Used against one of them, it hits much harder than usual: ×2 means twice the normal force, ×4 four times. It is the game’s way of saying: this is the sentence that answers that argument. Open an entry to read why.
“Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc’d by fate…” — Virgil’s epic gave Rome a Trojan pedigree and Augustus a mandate.
Virgil, Aeneid 1.1 (trans. Dryden, public domain).public domain
In the gameRome’s founding, sung backward from Troy.