History ComicBook / ALetterFromHome

* DanBrowned: Don Rosa bragged that all his historical details of the story were correct, but as he later pointed out himself, the Priory of Sion was proved to be a hoax.

* PublicDomainArtifact: The treasure includes a fair few, namely the ivory throne of king Solomon, the arc of the covenant and the holy grail (which Donald uses to knock Molay senseless).

* AwesomeButImpractical: {{Invoked|Trope}} and {{Exploited|Trope}}. Whenever the Philosopher's Stone is used, the gold it creates is demonstrably soft and useless for whatever purpose it was previously fulfilling, such as prison chains or [[sopiler:a gun, which just falls apart in the shooter's hand]].

* BaldOfEvil: Molay.
* BeardOfEvil: Again, Molay. Doubles as BadassBeard.

* BigBad: Molay.

* CoolBoat: Scrooge's ship in Brutopia.

* TheDragon: Maurice Mattressface.

** In ''Life and Time's'' chapters about Castle [=McDuck=], the [=McDuck=] ancestors' ghosts were shown to haunt the castle. They're nowhere to be seen in this story.

* NobleTopEnforcer: Maurice.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Averted this time around in regards to Scrooge and Donald. After over a dozen adventures with his nephew in which Donald's life was constantly put at risk and he helped his uncle attain multiple famous treasures Scrooge admits that Donald (and Huey, Dewey, and Loiue) changed him for the better, reminding him of the joy he found in adventure during his youth.

* WhamLine: "It's...it's not here...not even the Guidebook knows the correct rank order of the original nine Templars!" For perhaps the first time in history, the [[BigBookOfEverything Junior Woodchuck Guidebook]] was not able to provide a vital clue.

''A Letter From Home'', also known as ''The Old Castle's Other Secret'', and its companion story, ''The Crown Of The Crusader Kings'', is a two part epic ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story, made by Creator/DonRosa, and, along with ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' and ''Guardians of the Lost Library'', considered his magnum opus.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The Priory of Sion never existed, but this was unknown to Don Rosa when he wrote the story.

** In ''Life and Time's'' chapters about Castle [=McDuck=], the [=McDuck=] ancestors' ghosts were shown to haunt the castle. They're nowhere to see in this story.

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Notably subverted for once in regards to Scrooge and Donald. After over a dozen adventures with his nephew in which Donald's life was constantly put at risk and he helped his uncle attain multiple famous treasures Scrooge admits that Donald (and Huey, Dewey, and Loiue) changed him for the better, reminding him of the joy he found in adventure during his youth.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: The last half of ''A Letter From Home'' centers on Scrooge losing this.

* JerkassFacade: The last half of ''A Letter From Home'' centers on Scrooge losing this.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Keeping with tradition, Donald's mother and Scrooge's sister Hortense is briefly mentioned, but nothing is said of where she is or what happened to her.
** In ''Life and Time's'' chapters about Castle [=McDuck=], Sir Quackly's ghost was shown to haunt the castle. He's nowhere to see in this story.
*** Not just Sir Quackly either. Those same chapters showed that the other [=McDuck=] ancestors were haunting the old castle as well. In fact, both of Scrooge's parents appear there as ghosts at the end of ''The Billionare of Dismal Downs'', so the argument could be made concerning their lack of appearance too. Might be considered even stranger since their children are reuniting for the first time in years. However, it does line up with the fact that none of the ghosts appeared in Barks original ''The Old Castle's Secret'', which while written before Rosa's ''Life and Times'' does chronologically take place after it.

* BigDamnReunion: Averted first and then later played straight between Scrooge and Matilda. Matilda is not happy to see Scrooge again because of how he had treated her and Hortense all those years ago, and acts resentful towards him through the whole story, with Scrooge being too stubborn to attempt to reconcile either. When Scrooge attempts to [[spoiler:[[TakingTheBullet:take the bullet]] for Matilda by jumping between her and Molay, however, it shows her his true self, and they're eventually able to have a tearful reunion after talking everything out.]]

In ''The Crown of The Crusader Kings'', Scrooge learns that the location of the eponymous crown, made by all the wealthiest gems in medieval Europe, and the western counterpart to the crown of Genghis Kahn, which he previously lost in the Creator/DonRosa story ''Return To Xanadu'', can be found in the diary of Christopher Columbus, which was lost during his return trip. Scrooge remembers that he knows the location of the diary, as it belonged to Swedish/Finnish polar explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, whom Scrooge purchased an Australian map from in 1892, when Nordenskiöld offhandedly stated he lost it while exploring the northern part of Brutopia.

''A Letter From Home'', also known as ''The Old Castle's Other Secret'', and its companion story, ''The Crown Of The Crusader Kings'', is a two part epic ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story, made by Creator/DonRosa, and, along with ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' and ''The Lost Library'', considered his magnum opus.

* BaldOfEvil: Molay

* BigBad: Molay

* DudeWheresMyRespect : Notably subverted for once in regards to Scrooge and Donald. After over a dozen adventures with his nephew in which Donald's life was constantly put at risk and he helped his uncle attain multiple famous treasures Scrooge admits that Donald (and Huey, Dewey, and Loiue) changed him for the better, reminding him of the joy he found in adventure during his youth.

** In ''Life and Time's'' chapters about Castle [=McDuck=], Sir Quackly's ghost were shown to haunt the castle. He's nowhere to see in this story.
*** Not just Sir Quackly either. Those same chapters showed that the other [=McDuck=] ancestors were haunting the old castle as well. In fact, both of Scrooges parents appear there as ghosts at the end of ''The Billionare of Dismal Downs'', so the argument could be made concerning their lack of appearance too. Might be considered even stranger since their children are reuniting for the first time in years. However, it does line up with the fact that none of the ghosts appeared in Barks original ''The Old Castle's Secret'', which while written before Rosa's ''Life and Times'' does chronologically take place after it.

'''A Letter From Home''', also known as ''The Old Castle's Other Secret'', and its companion story, ''The Crown Of The Crusader Kings'', is a two part epic ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse story, made by Creator/DonRosa, and, along with ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' and ''The Lost Library'', considered his magnum opus.

After retrieving the book in Brutopia, Scrooge and his nephews head to Paris, where they meet with two representatives of The International Money Council -- Maurice Mattressface, whom they previously ran into in the CarlBarks story ''The Fabulous Philosopher's Stone'', and his superior, Monsieur Molay. Molay accompanies them to Haiti, where Columbus' flagship Santa Maria had capsized while he was trying to deliver the crown to the Emperor of Mongolia, on behalf of the Templars, in order to hide it from the wrath of the French king. Here, they find that an abandoned anchor on a hilltop is the clue to locating the crown, as watching through the anchor's eye on Christmas Day reveals the true position. However, Molay betrays them and tricks them into searching an entire valley for the crown, finding nothing. He then takes the crown for himself, but one of the nephews reveals that, due to the calendar change, the date, on which the Knights Templar, actually the International Money Council, obtained ownership of the crown never existed. Molay tries shooting them but is subdued by a Haitian priest, who then takes the crown for a local museum.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Towards the end of the story after Molay has been defeated and Scrooge is enjoying the new treasure he's discovered he has one last confrontation with his sister when they deal with their issues. When continually questioned by his sister on why he never attempted to contact her and their other sibling Scrooge [=McDuck=] breaks down and cries, admitting that he was

* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Towards the end of the story after Molay has been defeated and Scrooge is enjoying the new treasure he's discovered he has one last confrontation with his sister when they deal with their issues. When continually questioned by his sister on why he never attempted to contact her and their other sibling Scrooge McDuck breaks down and cries, admitting that he was

*** Not just Sir Quackly either. Those same chapters showed that the other McDuck ancestors were haunting the old castle as well. In fact, both of Scrooges parents appear there as ghosts at the end of ''The Billionare of Dismal Downs'', so the argument could be made concerning their lack of appearance too. Might be considered even stranger since their children are reuniting for the first time in years. However, it does line up with the fact that none of the ghosts appeared in Barks original ''The Old Castle's Secret'', which while written before Rosa's ''Life and Times'' does chronologically take place after it.

* TheKnightsTemplar

* Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Towards the end of the story after Molay has been defeated and Scrooge is enjoying the new treasure he's discovered he has one last confrontation with his sister when they deal with their issues. When continually questioned by his sister on why he never attempted to contact her and their other sibling Scrooge McDuck breaks down and cries, admitting that he was