Literacy

Literacy is a learning based skill that increases your chance of successfully reading a spellbook or ancient book, as well as decreasing the time required.

You may attempt to read any spellbook regardless of your skill level, but failure may result in you being confused, losing all your MP, being randomly teleported, or spawning strong monsters around you. For this reason, it is advised that you attempt to read spellbooks in a wilderness area or portable shelter rather than in your home or a town. Reading while confused may cause you to fail, regardless of your skill.

Literacy can be temporarily increased by casting divine wisdom or by reading a scroll of knowledge. Some equipment will have the attribute of increasing the Literacy skill, so you should keep those for when reading a difficult spellbook.

Reading scrolls will increase your literacy skill; however, scrolls have a set casting level that is unaffected by your literacy skill.

Having Literacy as a starting skill prevents the character from starting with 3 potions of cure minor wound. It could be argued that the ability to learn spells is rather useful compared to a few potions.

For reasons not fully understood, as your literacy skill increase to higher levels a "floor" value emerges on the literacy potential. Below the floor value, literacy growth slows to a crawl. It is critical to keep one's literacy potential above this floor value as the floor value seems to increase with level. The floor in the 80s were measured at about 85% potential, about 95% in the 90s, and at least 103% potential at 102 literacy skill. This is probably related to some sort of rounding effect applied to the skill gain.

Trained skill

You may learn Literacy from the trainers in Palmia, Noyel, and Lumiest.

Elona+

Monsters summoned in permanent locations will disappear after a few days if it's a location where dropped items eventually disappear (like towns).

Your Literacy skill is used to create sellable books. To do so, you need to use t a placed Table furniture and create manuscripts, which will convert all your inspiration (minimum of 5) into manuscripts. (You can hold up to 9,999 inspiration and they accumulate through random events.) The quality of manuscripts generated is based on your Literacy skill and Perception and Learning attributes. From lowest to highest, the possible qualities are: "paper scraps", "noob", "commonplace", "good sense", "cool", "satisfied", and "masterpiece".

The second option will allow you to turn a stack of at least 10 manuscripts into books, paying an upfront fee of 30,000 gold. This will produce a stack of 100 books which you will be prompted to name. The value of the books depends on both the quality of the manuscripts and the size of the stack used. (The entire stack will always be used, but the effect on the price is capped at 1000 manuscripts.)

ShikiOrigami feat (Crane), then 20 Literacy levels (Shuriken), then 60 Literacy Levels (Airplane) needed to learn ShikiOrigami-***.

30 Literacy levels needed to learn Kijin Shibari.

40 Learning levels needed to learn Reading party. It combines Literacy levels to better read books.

40 Literacy levels needed to learn Burn Scrolls.

150 total levels of Alchemy, Throwing, Magic Device, Literacy needed to learn Power Item.

Cupid race and Claymore class no longer starts with the skill.

Races

• Yerles
• Eulderna
• Mandrake
• Wyvern
• Cupid removed in Elona+
• Piece
• Roran

Classes

• Wizard
• Warmage
• Pianist
• Priest
• Claymore removed in Elona+

Wishing

• #literac will increase Literacy by 1 level and train its potential.

Elona Mobile

Literacy is a Magic stat based skill.