The Torah
The Five Books of Moses
Moses, by the church’s own reckoning
Do not throw a satchel at this. Do not stay to argue with it either. Leave, politely.
- Catch rate
- 4 / 255
- Base research
- 400
- Stat total
- 460
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.
Enormous. Five books, complete, copied letter by letter for three thousand years by scribes who counted every one.
Moderate. It does not argue. It sets the terms that everything after it has had to answer.
Enormous. It has been read in the synagogue every week without a break since before there was a church.
Slow. It is the first book opened whenever Jews and Christians disagree, and it is never opened in a hurry.
Moves learned
This book learns nothing new by levelling — everything it knows, it knew from the start or brought with it through development.