Skills

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Skills

Skills determine your Lost Souls character's abilities in many areas. You can see a summary of your skills with the command 'show skills'. Each skill represents an area of knowledge, training, or conditioning that your character can potentially have. The maximum level of ability you can achieve in a given skill, and the speed with which you approach that level, is determined mainly by whether and to what degree you specialize in that skill. See 'help specialties' for a detailed discussion of this.

When categorizing skill competence in-character, we use descriptive rather than numeric skill levels. These are, in increasing order of ability: incapacitated, handicapped, unskilled, very inept, inept, unpracticed, fairly competent, competent, fairly proficient, proficient, fairly skilled, skilled, fairly adept, adept, expert, masterful, prodigious, incredible, amazing, preternatural, unearthly, nigh-divine and transcendent.

Help is available on each individual skill. However, note that some special skills are hidden from most people; until your character has attained knowledge about a hidden skill, you will not be able to view help on it, nor will it appear in the skill list below. A skill's help will display the skill class it belongs to and the attribute it is based on; this attribute is the source of the specialty points needed to specialize in this skill, and often is used together with your skill level in determining your overall ability in that area. Hidden skills and skills which can only be learned by someone specializing in them will be indicated as such. Some skills have special maximum ratings that apply to them in addition to the maximum imposed by your specialty degree; this will be noted. Also, some unusual skills are incompatible with other skills, meaning that if you have any of the skills shown as incompatible, then this skill cannot be learned. Naturally, the help will also include a description of the skill's function.

The list below shows the full set of skills on Lost Souls that your character has knowledge of, organized by class.

Be aware that some of these skills, especially among the craft and trade skills, have no implemented effect in the game, being defined for future use, and that many skills are presently used only by guilds or other affiliations.

Artistic Skills

Athletic Skills

Close Combat Weapon Skills

Combat Skills

Craft Skills

Divine Skills

   Incarnation             Manifestation           Psychopompery           Theolysis

Esoteric Skills

   Centering               Channeling              Chaos Affinity          Chaos Resistance
   Combat Meditation       Discipline              Earth Affinity          Fire Affinity
   Holy Fortitude          Holy Purity             Ice Affinity            Introspection
   Magick Affinity         Magick Resistance       Meditation              Metamorphosis
   Necromancy Resistance   Necromantic Affinity    Order Affinity          Order Resistance
   Power Direction         Power Focusing          Power Generation        Power Tuning

Fieldcraft Skills

   Forestry                Hills Fieldcraft        Jungle Fieldcraft       Exoma Fieldcraft
   Mountaineering          Orienteering            Plains Fieldcraft       Shorelands Fieldcraft
   Spelunking              Streetwise              Swamp Fieldcraft        Tracking

Language Skills

   Assarith                Bagarguh                Ci-Xitid                Cilaghai
   Cryoprase               Dazask                  Delphin                 Dethek
   Enochian                Erisian                 Esperanto               Etzmarak
   Fromageb                Graecan                 Hithal                  Ikatari
   K'telikix               Kathdax                 Kentos                  Latin
   Lingua Manu             Nanomi                  Ngaathgl                Nihonese
   Nilasnai                Quaraak                 Ragarr                  Rajanin
   Sekkcha                 Shan Dareis             Shosarra                Siglaryn
   Sperethiel              Sumerian                Takargu                 Talislan
   Thari                   Theran                  Ularu                   Phglek

Magickal Skills

   Biomancy                Caromancy               Chronomancy             Conjuring
   Cryomancy               Divination              Enchanting              Eskarimancy
   Evocation               Geomancy                Hydromancy              Illusion
   Invocation              Leximancy               Lumimancy               Necromancy
   Neuromancy              Nigromancy              Pathomancy              Patronomancy
   Plutomancy              Prestidigitation        Pyromancy               Sanguimancy
   Somniomancy             Spatiomancy             Summoning               Symbology
   Telesma                 Thaumaturgy             Theurgy                 Umbromancy

Medical Skills

   Dentistry               Diagnosis               First Aid               Homeopathy

Military Skills

Movement Skills

Musical Skills

Performance Skills

   Mimicry                 Showmanship             Storytelling            Ventriloquism

Physical Conditioning Skills

   Alkaline Resistance     Cold tolerance          Crushing Resistance     Disease Affinity
   Earth Resistance        Electrical Resistance   Fire Resistance         Force Resistance
   Hardiness               Heat tolerance          Pain Tolerance          Photonic Affinity
   Photonic Resistance     Piercing Resistance     Plasma Affinity         Plasma Resistance
   Poison Affinity         Poison Resistance       Radiation Affinity      Radiation Resistance
   Recuperation            Regeneration            Robustness              Slashing Resistance
   Sonic Resistance        Stamina                 Supernal Durability     Tissue Hardening

Psionic Skills

   Psychokinesis           Psycholeptesis          Psychovorism            Redaction

Ranged Weapon Skills

Rogue Skills

Scholarly Skills

   Cartography             Cosmology               Daemonology             Elder Lore
   Erotic Lore             Gem Lore                Heraldry                History
   Insect Lore             Law                     Legend Lore             Linguistics
   Literacy                Logic                   Mathematics             Memory
   Metaphysics             Metapsychology          Mineral Lore            Philosophy
   Physics                 Plant Lore              Poison Lore             Politics
   Psychology              Rune Lore               Scholarship             Teaching

Social Skills

   Haggling                Intimidation            Leadership              Manipulation

Trade Skills

   Driving                 Farming                 Finance                 Fishing
   Garbology               Livestock Breeding      Machine Operation       Mortuary