Great Writer (Civ6)

Great Writer
Introduced in Civilization VI
Stats
Movement	4
Movement	4
Charges	2
Charges	2
Activation effect
Creates a Great Work of Writing.
Notes
Activate on an appropriate tile, such as an Amphitheatre, to create the Great Work.

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The Great Writer is a type of Great Person Great Person in Civilization VI dedicated to the creation of Great Works of Writing. Each Great Writer may be activated up to two times on a tile containing a free slot which accepts Great Works of Writing (such as a Theater Square district with an Amphitheater, a Palace, or suitable wonder), creating up to two Great Works of Writing.

Earning Great Writers

Great Writers may be claimed by any player who has earned enough Great Writer points (except for those who play the Māori, for whom Great Writers are generally unavailable). Theater Squares generate +1 Great Writer point per turn, and provide an additional point for the first two buildings completed in that district. (For example, a Theater Square with an Amphitheater, Archaeological Museum would generate +3 Great Writer points per turn.) Further points may also be earned by completing the Theater Square Performances project in a city with a Theater Square. Players who do not have enough points may patronize a Writer by paying the difference using Faith or Gold.

The Bolshoi Theatre provides +2 Great Writer points each turn, and the Broadway wonder provides +3 Great Writer points every turn. In Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, the Great Library also provides +1 Great Writer point per turn.

Players can also increase their Great Writer point yields by using the Literary Tradition policy card, which generates +2 Great Writer points per turn.

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The Divine Spark pantheon bonus and the Stockholm Suzerain bonus both increase the number of Great Writer points generated from each Theater Square by +1. (Note that in Rise and Fall, Stockholm's bonus is only active if the Theater Square has a completed Amphitheater building.)

Great Writers

Name	Era	Great Works of Writing
Homer	Classical	Odyssey, Iliad
Bhasa	Classical	The Madhyama Vyayoga, Pratima-nataka
Qu Yuan	Classical	Chu Ci, Lament for Ying
Ovid	Classical	Metamorphoses, Heroides
Geoffrey Chaucer	Medieval	The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
Li Bai	Medieval	Drinking Alone by Moonlight (Wikisource), In the Mountains on a Summer Day (Wikisource)
Murasaki Shikibu	Medieval	The Diary of Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
Miguel de Cervantes	Renaissance	Don Quixote, Novelas Ejemplares (Exemplary Novels)
William Shakespeare	Renaissance	Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet
Niccolò Machiavelli	Renaissance	Discourses on Livy, The Prince
Margaret Cavendish	Renaissance	The Blazing World, Observations upon Experimental Philosophy
Marie-Catherine d'Aulnoy	Renaissance	Fair Goldilocks, The Dolphin
Jane Austen	Industrial	Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
Edgar Allen Poe	Industrial	The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven
Alexander Pushkin	Industrial	Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Industrial	Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther
Mary Shelley	Industrial	Frankenstein, The Last Man
James Joyce	Modern	Ulysses, Dubliners
Emily Dickinson	Modern	A Bird Came Down the Walk, Success is Counted Sweetest
Leo Tolstoy	Modern	War and Peace, Anna Karenina
Mark Twain	Modern	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
F. Scott Fitzgerald	Modern	This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and the Damned
Rabindranath Tagore	Atomic	The Home and the World, The Gardener
H. G. Wells	Atomic	The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine
Karel Capek	Information	Rossum's Universal Robots (R.U.R), War with the Newts

Also note that the Great Work of Writing The Art of War is created by Great General Sun Tzu, using his special ability.

Scenario-Specific Great Writers

Jadwiga's Legacy

• Jan Kochanowski
• Piotr Skarga

Strategy

Great Writers will be among your earliest and most reliable sources of Culture, as the Great Works they produce can start filling slots in Amphitheaters from the Classical Era onward. The only wonders with slots specifically for Great Works of Writing are the Bolshoi Theatre, Broadway, the Great Library, and Oxford University, so if you build these wonders, try to attract some Great Writers to fill their slots as well.

Civilopedia entry

Great writers are those men and women who express our desires, insights, fancies, foibles, fears, and joys in the written word. History has been marked by their voices; indeed, “history” is one of their voices. 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. And let’s not forget those who put down facts on paper. Whatever their muse, whatever their intent, their words echo through time, binding us all together ... or sometimes setting us all apart.

Related achievements

Epic of Gilgamesh As Sumeria, have the first Great Work of Writing The Epic of Gilgamesh is considered the earliest piece of great literature still surviving.