Skills

Feigning a mood, a motive, or another person entirely.

Governs taming success and animal-care work rate.

Preparing herbs into remedies — what to pick, how to dry it, how much is too much.

Turning a blow with a weapon that wants to keep swinging.

Unarmed close combat — fists, elbows, and whatever is to hand.

Breaking a carcass down into meat and hide without spoiling either.

Joining and shaping worked timber.

Load paths, spans, and drainage — why a structure stands up.

Tossing small nuts at a target peg — steady hands win quiet wagers. The eye and the release carry over to a thrown weapo

Reading rock and swinging a pick — what the mountain gives up.

Cutting, dressing, and coursing stone.

Holding an audience — music, recitation, spectacle.

Keeping a shafted weapon between yourself and a blow — measure, and the bind.

Addressing a crowd and being believed by it.

Reading a blow early enough to put something rigid in its way.

Loosing a shot and making it land — bows, slings, and anything else that kills at a distance.

Turning an edge with an edge, and recovering in time to do it again.

Cutting, stitching and weaving cloth and hide into things people wear.

Keeping prisoners alive, and talking them into staying.