Scott Alexander (author/host)

If she was a faster learner than anyone they've ever met, which is still a complexity penalty but not much of one, we're both admitting she's brilliant, they might remember that as very good.

Charolais, that gets you one.

When she's good at every skill of war, why not admit that she probably had more than a month to learn them?

Arendelle, because she's hardly the first shockingly brilliant teenage general.

Sure, Alexander had Philip, but he died when Alexander was young, and half of what Alexander did, he had to invent for himself.

The Middle Ages was an age of apprenticeships, and that means we don't have the formalized art of war that we will in another two centuries, only what fathers teach their sons.

It's not that improbable that she invents it herself.

Charolais, it absolutely is.

Basilica, or you could admit it's a miracle.

Arundel laughs.

Basilica, since you've joined the conversation, Charolais, let's talk about the death of Joan of Arc.

Charolais, at her trial she defended herself with the skill of a brilliant theologian.

Therefore she was a brilliant theologian.

Therefore she had training.

Basilica, not the trial, the death.

the point where everything is lost and she goes to the flames and is burned alive.

She could save herself by confessing.

Charolais, she tried that.

Basilica, no, she signed a document and the record was altered.

We have six witnesses.