Rank 7 of 14
The Scribe
“Writes history, forgets reality.”
The Scribe has written seven autobiographies, two manifestos and zero things anyone actually wanted to read. Once hired by the royal court to keep records, he was quickly reassigned to “creative duties” after annotating a war treaty with emotionally charged haikus.
He now spends his days in the library “revolutionizing language,” which mostly means arguing with himself in footnotes and adding dramatic pauses to grocery lists.
He's convinced he's a genius, misunderstood in his own time. Everyone else just wishes he'd stop quoting ancient philosophers during tavern arguments. But if the kingdom ever needs a 17-stanza poem about crop rotation, or a scroll titled “Why I'm Smarter Than the Prince,” he's your guy.
Four copies, four lines
There are four Scribe cards in the deck, and each one says something different.
- Writes history, forgets reality.
- Grammar police with a quill and no chill.
- The person who answers your dumb questions on online forums.
- Likes writing about many great people – mostly himself.
In the game: beats ranks 1–6, loses to 8–14 and the Crown. See card ranks.
The real medieval scribe
Before printing, every book was copied by hand. By 1300 a lot of that work had moved out of monasteries and into towns, where professional scribes copied textbooks for university students and booksellers, often paid by the piece.
It was slow, cold work, and scribes said so. Notes in the margins of old manuscripts complain about freezing fingers, bad parchment, worse ink, and the joy of finally finishing. Our Scribe also writes in the margins. Mostly about himself.
More medieval jobs, and the world they live in: the world of Crown Shuffle.
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