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Skills are learnt from Master Dalsin. Each character class has seven predetermined skills.

Skill	Description
Learning	Ability to quickly increase your character's experience.
Trade	Ability to bargain over the price you want to buy or sell an item at.
Communion	Ability to recover mana stocks more quickly.
Language	Ability to decode coded messages (Multiplayer mode only).
Master Of Arms	ability to increase speed of attack and chances of a successful hit.
Perception	Ability to detect traps.
Concentration	Ability to enhance your character's physical attributes temporarily (strength and dexterity).
Defusing	Ability to undo traps.
Detection	Ability to detect magic objects.
Exorcism	Ability to remove spells from cursed objects carried by another.
Forester	Ability to find food.
Identification	Ability to identify all unknown objects.
Lycanthropy	Ability to change your character into a werewolf. (All magic points are used for strength).
Medicine	Ability to heal others.
Meditation	Ability to temporarily increase your number of mana points.
Orientation	Ability to display the entire map of the regions and dungeons for a given period of time.
Prayer	Ability to increase your character's armour class.
Recharging	Ability to recharge the magic objects you have.
Repair	Ability to repair the weapons you have.
Silence	Ability of your character to move around without being noticed by his opponents.
Theft	Ability to rob the characters you meet.