Everyone in Mystavaria possesses a number of general and specialist
abilities, collectively called skills. Much of your life will revolve
around your skills, and they are a representation of your areas of
expertise. Skills start out at low ranks with only one or two abilities,
but as you LEARN, your skill rank will rise and you will gain access
to more (and oftentimes better) abilities.
To see a list of your skills, type SKILLS.
To review the list of abilities available to you under each skill,
use AB <skillname> (short for ABILITIES).
There are five types of skills in Mystavaria, each with their own unique
essence and purpose:
General Skills
General Skills are foundational skills that every Mystavarian is born with.
These encompass vital abilities that ensure survival and enhance utility.
Included amongst the General Skills are: Animals, Assessement,
Attack, Awareness, Defense, Dreamlore, Fortitude, and Survival.
Major Skills
Major Skills are considered to be the most unique and specialised skills,
and the ones available to you vary dependent on the profession you choose.
To learn more about each profession and see the list of Major Skills
availabe to each, see HELP <profession> or HELP CHOOSING.
Minor Skills
Minor Skills are another set of specialist skills, but unlike the Major
Skills, these are available for all to learn regardless of profession.
The skills categorised as Minor Skills are: Drawing Magic, Finesse,
Flying, Healing, Photonics, and Unarmed Combat.
Crafting Skills
Every Mystavarian is capable of learning and mastering a number of Crafting
Skills, which provide the opportunity to create a range of items, from
essential utilities to decorative works of art. The Crafting Skills
are: Alchemy, Armour Smithing, Artisanry, General Crafting, Lapidary,
Tailoring, Weapon Smithing, and Woodworking.
Gathering Skills
The final collection of skills are the Gathering Skills - those associated
with the production and collection of Mystavaria's common resources and
commodities. Currently avaiable Gathering Skills are: Farming, General
Gathering, Herbology, and Mineralogy.
Mystavarians are born into the world with a set number of SKILLPOINTS
in each category (except for Generals). When you acquire a new skill, it
will use up one skillpoint from the associated category. To read more about
these, see HELP SKILLPOINTS.
If you wish to learn more about any of the skills, use HELP <skill>.
It may also be worthwhile to read HELP REQUESTING, HELP LEARNING, and
HELP LESSONS to learn about acquiring and advancing your skills.
Syntax:SKILLS
AB <skill>