Great Writer

Great Writer
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Abilities	Can write a Political Treatise, producing Culture. Can create a Great Work of Writing.

The Great Writer is a Great Person acquired through Specialists or Wonders.

Overview

"Great Writers" are those gifted men and women who express our desires, insights, fancies, foibles, fears and joys in the written word. Whether in poetry, in novels and stories, for the stage or screen, these are the artists who have defined their civilizations and cultures. Some write prose and poetry about imaginary worlds; others write tracts of philosophy, politics, religion and science about how our world is or should be. Their words echo through time, binding us all together.

Great Writer Names Aesop Vittorio Alfieri Dante Alighieri Ludovico Ariosto Aristophanes Jane Austen Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube Bhāsa L. Frank Baum Harriet Beecher Stowe Cao Xueqin Lewis Carroll Miguel de Cervantes Geoffrey Chaucer Anton Chekhov Chikamatsu Monzaemon James Fenimore Cooper Stephen Crane Emperor Daigo Rubén Darío Charles Dickens Emily Dickenson Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas F. Scott Fitzgerald Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nikolay Gogol Maksim Gorky Nathaniel Hawthorne José Hernández Homer Victor Hugo Washington Irving Jorge Isaacs Kālidāsa Omar Khayyám Ki no Tsurayuki Rudyard Kipling Langling Xiaoxiao Sheng D. H. Lawrence Lucian of Samosata Thomas Mallory Herman Melville Murasaki Shikibu Natsume Soseki Ovid Petrarch Edgar Allen Poe Marcel Proust Qu Yuan François Rabelais Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi Johann Friedrich von Schiller William Shakespeare Mary Shelley Shi Naian Sophocles Edmund Spencer Henry David Thoreau Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Ueda Akinari Valmiki Jules Verne Virgil Voltaire Vyasa H. G. Wells Walt Whitman Yoshida Kenkō

Strategy

As with the other Great People, the Great Writer has two uses: one for a more permanent benefit, and one for an immediate boost. Both of these abilities consume him.

Creating a Great Work of Writing and placing it into an appropriate building generates a permanent boost to Tourism and Culture. Writing a political treatise, on the other hand, will immediately boost Culture by a set amount (depending on your current Culture output). Use this if you don't care too much about your Tourism, and want to speed up the acquisition of your next Social Policy.

Unique Unit Replacements

Historical

Icon	Unit	Civilization	Abilities
	Chàa Chii	The Mixtecs (Eight Deer)	May be expended to build an Academy or a Holy Site. Cannot be expended for a Political Treatise.
	Cynfierdd	Rheged (Urien)	When expended for a Great Work of Literature in the Capital during wartime; the units of defensive partners and City-State allies will be partially healed.
	Eccentric	America (Norton I)	When used to create a Great Work of Writting, triggers a Culture Bomb to occur in the city. Randomly produces Cultural Great People Points when expended.
	Fili	Ireland (Brian Boru)	Produces unique Great Works of Writing, which yield +2 Great Musician Points per turn. Receive a free Fili with each Great General spawned.
	Gabyaga	Somalia (Siad Barre)	Provides an extra Trade Route slot when garrisoned in a city
	Great Filmmaker	California (Ide/Muir)	Creates unique Great Works that provide +1 Global Happiness to the owner Political Treatises provide +50% Culture
	Great Reformer	United Kingdom (Clement Attlee)	Creates unique Acts of Parliament as Great Works of Writing, which provide extra Culture and Tourism, the amount scaled to your civ's Happiness.
	Kitabdar	Khiva (Abu al-Ghazi Bahadur)	When expended, tiles you own that once held Barbarian encampments generate +1 of a random yield, and up to 3 new Barbarian encampments spawn near your borders.
	Kyk-over-al Writer	Guyana (Cheddi Jagan)	Great Works provide +2 Local Happiness. May Inspire Independence one time when in the territory of a city-state allied to another civilization, causing the city state's influence with you and their ally to swap. The action does not consume the unit.
	Poeta Modernista	Nicaragua (Sandino)	+25% Culture from Political Treatises +15HP healed to all units upon expenditure
	Prime Minister	Australia (Henry Parkes)	Provides political quotes as Great Works of Writing Upon birth, all non-puppeted coastal cities yield +1 Tourism per owned land tile outside workable limits
	Rengashi	Imagawa (Imagawa Yoshimoto)	No Maintenance cost. Creates unique Great Works of Writing. When expended, provides a burst of 50 Culture for each Great Person previously expended on the same turn.
	Skald	Iceland (Ingolfur Arnarson)	May embark and cross deep Ocean Double Movement and Defense when embarked May found cities on foreign continents Produces unique Great Works

Fictional

Icon	Unit	Civilization	Abilities
	Ghost of Mufasa	The Pridelands (Simba)	Creates unique Great Works of Literature that yield additional Golden Age points.