There are 12 skills in the game that represent different actions commonly taken by characters that may have a chance of failure.
Each skill can have 0 to 5 Skill Points applied, which let you add 0 to 5x your Level Bonus.
Each skill can be used with each stat to perform different actions giving you a total bonus to the roll of:
Bonus = + Stat + Level Bonus
Listed for each skill is some standard combinations that represent common actions for reference, but do not forget that unlisted combinations may be suitable for uncommon situations.
The skills are:
Arcana,
Coerce,
Deceive,
Infiltrate,
Insight,
Nature,
Persuade,
Physique,
Search,
Society,
Tech,
Traverse
Skills
Arcana
Arcana
Arcana is the study of magic from the perspective of the mathematics and occult, and the skill of Arcana represents how well versed a character is in handling, scripting and understanding it.
Dexterity
The Dexterity Arcana skill can be used handle the etching of runes, making of effigies, other craft relating to the arcane.
Awareness
The Awareness Arcana skill can be used to sense aura of magic around you, whether it suffuses the atmosphere and terrain or are spell secreted away somewhere nearby.
Intelligence
The Intelligence Arcana skill represents your recall of arcane knowledge and your understanding of it.
Instinct
The Instinct Arcana skill is the ability to communicate and understand Arcane spirits, those that represent abstract concepts or those to do with the soul.
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Coerce
Coerce
Coerce is the skill to use threats and negative emotions to control others to do what you want.
Strength
The Strength Coerce skill allows individuals to threaten someone that you would enact violence to them or someone they care about with your physical might. Knowing and seeing your strength makes them believe it is possible and plausible.
Dexterity
The Dexterity Coerce skill allows individuals to threaten someone that you would enact violence to them or someone they care about with finesse. Knowing and seeing your agility makes them believe it is possible and plausible.
Fortitude
The Fortitude Coerce skill allows a character to strike fear in their enemies by simply showcasing that they are unkillable.
Intelligence
The Intelligence Coerce skill represents the ability to blackmail, rile up distrust, and create fear through logic and explanation, to make the target understand that these are the steps are logically going to occur next.
Instinct
The Instinct Coerce skills represents the ability to imbue fear, terror and disgust in a character by bringing up the fears and hates of that character and then manipulating them whilst their mind is clouded with those emotions.
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Deceive
Deceive
The Deceive skill represents a character’s ability to lie, manipulate through implications and half truths, as well as omit the truth.
Fortitude
The Fortitude Deceive skill deceives others but refusing to give anything away, remaining stoic and silent.
Intelligence
The Intelligence Deceive skill uses half-truths and implication to make it seem like it would be impossible for you to be lying to them, the implied existence of proof that does not exist or doesn’t apply.
Instinct
The Instinct Deceive skill uses a calm nature, careful control over yourself, tone, and emotion to make it seem like your deceptions are the same as your truths, and are impossible to differentiate.
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Infiltrate
Infiltrate
Infiltration is the skill of getting into places you’re not supposed to with practised skill and knowledge.
Strength
The Strength Infiltrate skill represents a character carefully breaking an object with their might to allow them access, kicking a locked door at the lock so the lock shatters, targeting the hinges on a treasure chest. It is a careful application of might.
Dexterity
The Dexterity Infiltrate skill represents getting into a place through finesse and agility, whether that be hiding in shadows to apply stealth or using lockpicks to open doors and disable traps.
Intelligence
The Intelligence Infiltrate skill represents breaking through the security of technical and magical systems, destroying glyphs to access the core of system to change it. Hacking.
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Insight
Insight
The Insight skill represents the ability to analyse people, to find their motives, to read a room, and pierce through deceptions.
Awareness
Insight Awareness is a roll to analyse a character’s body language, and try to learn their emotional state from hints and clues.
Intelligence
Insight Intelligence is about deduction of a character’s statement, analysing what they are saying with other information and whether things add up to logically or does their story have holes in it.
Instinct
Insight Instinct is about using experience talking to people and the instinct for fear and deception to guide you into a reading the room or particular person, and how they speak in order to see if something feels off about what they are saying.
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Nature
Nature
Fortitude
Fortitude Nature represents one’s ability to survive in nature, amongst the wilderness, hunting and foraging without society and enduring the force of nature.
Awareness
Awareness Nature is a roll that is showcases a character’s ability to track and hunt through the wilderness, looking for specific clues and identifying where that may lead them.
Intelligence
Intelligence Nature is about the understanding of nature, knowing which plants are poisonous, understanding how rivers flow and quicksand floods. As well as the understanding of nature spirits, how they tend to act and how they are categorised.
Instinct
Instinct Nature as a roll is about being one with nature, knowing how to handle animals and spirits of nature.
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Persuade
Persuade
Persuasion represents convincing someone using positive emotions.
Intelligence
Intelligence Persuasion represents using logic, understanding and emotions of self-fulfilment, greed, and greater desires to convince someone that agreeing with you aligns with their values or ideals.
Instinct
Instinct Persuasion represents working with baser emotions, such as safety or happiness, to convince someone that agreeing with you aligns with their values or ideals.
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Physique
Physique
Physique represents physical exertion and the body.
Strength
Strength Physique represents pure strength, anything anyone would do at the gym, exerting physical force to move heavy objects.
Fortitude
Fortitude Physique represents exerting over a long period of time, where it isn’t the act of whether it is possible that is in question, but for long.
Intelligence
Intelligence Physique represents an understanding of the body, medical knowledge and application of it. It can also represent the knowledge of more occult spirits pertaining to the body.
Instinct
Instinct Physique represents a capability of applying medical practises that have been learnt through trial and error. As well as an instinctual understanding of your own body.
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Search
Search
The Search skill is your capability of gaining information by spotting hidden things and deducing more from those things.
Dexterity
Dexterity Search allows a character to frisk and search for things using their hands, as such it can also be used to pick pockets.
Awareness
Awareness Search is the ability to look for things in an area, spotting hidden things and small careful details.
Intelligence
Intelligence Search is the ability to deduce more information, and investigate a scene.
Instinct
Instinct Search is the ability to look through a room, a crowd or a location and get a instinctual sense of how they are feeling and the atmosphere of the location.
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Society
Society
Society represents a capacity for history, politics, and economics - an understanding of complex intelligent societies and how they function.
Strength
Strength Society is a capacity for hard labour.
Awareness
Awareness Society is being able to analyse buildings, structures and infrastructure to understand its strengths and weaknesses.
Intelligence
Intelligence Society is the knowledge of history, politics and economics.
Instinct
Instinct Society is an innate understanding of complex society and how they work, giving a capacity for knowing how large amounts of people act and react.
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Tech
Tech
Technology represents an individual’s capabilities on technology, industry, and engineering.
Dexterity
Dexterity Tech represents careful fiddling with technology, soldering, engineering with small minute parts.
Intelligence
Intelligence Tech represents pure engineering, designing and creation of purely technical constructs as well as of knowing the new spirits of technology.
Instinct
Instinct Tech is used to manipulate and control technology constructs, often vehicle handling.
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Traverse
Traverse
Traverse is a skill representing the skills to move, climb and swim.
Strength
Strength Traverse represents the ability use physical strength to move, to pull yourself over ledges and swim through rapids.
Dexterity
Dexterity Traverse represents the ability to use finesse to move, knowing where to place your feet in climbing to kick off and get better angles.
Fortitude
Fortitude Traverse represents the ability to endure the environment, from temperatures and rainfall to more magical environments.
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