Thanks again all.
@Sneaks, was there a moment when you thought Theurgy would be particularly useful in that ambush and you weren’t given the chance to use it?
@Azraeldrake9, a 0 INT noble does still know how to read (unlike a 0 or 1 INT helot) – literacy is one of the advantages of being a noble. Your problem if you’re a 0 INT noble isn’t the literal inability to read, but the inability to do much with what you read. As it says in the game if you pick that path, you find “absorbing all those facts and ideas” by reading simply “too much of a struggle”.