There are three catagories of attributes, Talents, Skills, and Knowledges, click on each word to view a specific Ability catagory seperately, or click here to start at the beginning of the list. Like in the Attributes section you have points to spend on these abilities, a primary catagory of 13 points, a secondary catagory of 9 points, and a tertiary catagory of 5 points. Unlike the Attributes section you do not have one dot in each ability since everyone is different and won't have the same abilities. Let's begin.
Going on example we'll say you wanted to make your character's primary catagory Skills. This gives you 13 points to spend on the skills section. Remember that each dot is one point and also keep in mind that your characters tradition may not allow you to use a certain skill. For example, Verbena are would not use a gun so Firearms would be useless. They do however use knives so a rating in Melee would be helpfull. To view the Skill descriptions, click here.
Next choose your secondary catagory, Talents for example, and divide 9 points between it just like you did earlier. To view Talent descriptions click here.
Now divide 5 points in your final catagory, in our case Knowledges. To view a description of the Knowledges, click here.
Talents, Skills, Knowledges
Talents
Alertness
Sharpness of your senses.
1 Dot - Novice: You can spot almost anything you're looking for.
2 Dots - Practiced: You notice everything that happens around your, whether overt or subtle.
3 Dots - Competent: Trouble has a hard time getting past your senses.
4 Dots - Expert: You rarely, if ever, let down your guard.
5 Dots - Master: eyes in the back of your head.
Athletics
Your general athletic skils.
1 Dot - Novice: You're always the first pick for teams at family reunion football games.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've played regularly on school or community athletic teams.
3 Dots - Competent: You understand the rules and strategies of all popular sports; you've played or participated in a wide variety of athletic activities.
4 Dots - Expert: An accomplished athlete, you train vigorously and could be a professional in your chose sport
5 Dots - Master: Your athletic abilities are world-class; you could even serve as a trainer for others.
Awareness
Sensitivity to supernatural activity.
1 Dot - Novice: You often get weird vibes around people you meet or places you visit.
2 Dots - Practiced: No longer do you buy into the notion that a rational explaination exists for the unexplainable.
3 Dots - Competent: You can see that all things have an aura, and you've learned what different aura colors signify.
4 Dots - Expert: You are constantly aware that humans are not alone; there's a whole world of uknown creatures and powers up there.
5 Dots - Master: Restless spirits, walking dead, strange shapeshifters, and all the odd events they bring with them flourish in the Tellurian. You regularly commune with the bizarre, learning new things with each experience.
Brawl
Your ability to fight without a weapon.
1 Dot - Novice: Thought inexperianced you know the basics of fisticuffs.
2 Dots - Practiced: You know where to hit people for maximum effect.
3 Dots - Competent: You know how to take someone down quickly without doing permanent harm.
4 Dots - Expert: You possess a black belt in martial art.
5 Dots - Master: You've developed your own unique style and perhaps formed a fighting school.
Dodge
Your ability to move out of the way of incoming attacks.
1 Dot - Novice: You know the basics of avoiding a line of fire if you have some warning.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've been in enough fights to know when to stay down and safe.
3 Dots - Competent: Accomplished and experienced; you know a number of ways to place yourself where most attacks won't hit you.
4 Dots - Expert: Enemies find you exceedingly difficult to hit; you never seem to stay in one place for long.
5 Dots - Master: Over time, you've actually learned to sidestep bullets.
Expression
Your ability to convey your feelings. (art, acting, etc)
1 Dot - Novice: You have rudimentary talents, probably good enough to win a college scholarship.
2 Dots - Practiced: You communicate with a notable level of tact and skill.
3 Dots - Competent: You are a popular success in your chosen medium.
4 Dots - Expert: Your audiences always respond with deep passion to your performances.
5 Dots - Master: You are nationally known and loved for your expressive skills.
Instruction
Your teaching ability.
1 Dot - Novice: You can present simple concepts, such as multiplication, in an understandable manner.
2 Dots - Practiced: You can teach moderately complex subjects like physics in straightfoward lessons.
3 Dots - Competent: You can teach anyting you know to a level of high-school competency.
4 Dots - Expert: Learning from you is a pleasure; you make advanced calculus and ancient languages esily accessible.
5 Dots - Master: You're a teachers who consistently inspires your puiles, endowing them with a deep and true understanding of what you instruct.
Intuition
Your "gut feeling".
1 Dot - Novice: Your instincts often put you on the right trail.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've learned to always follow your first answer.
3 Dots - Competent: You know when something's afoot.
4 Dots - Expert: Not only do you know when something's wrong, you know where to go to figure out who's responsible.
5 Dots - Master: Your instincts are so sudden and precise, you scare yourself.
Intimidation
Your air of authority.
1 Dot - Novice: You can back geeks into a corner.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've won the occasional staredown with a bothersome competitor for a bus seat.
3 Dots - Competent: People avoid your direct gaze and scurry to do your bidding or answer your questions.
4 Dots - Expert: With a soft whisper or even a single gesture, you convince others to obey you or your terms.
5 Dots - Master: faced with your commanding presence, a wolf might consider showing it's throat to you.
Streetwise
Ability to blend in with the local scene.
1 Dot - Novice: You know where to find hookers and drug dealers.
2 Dots - Practiced: The local street people thing you're okay and give you some measure of trust.
3 Dots - Competent: You know how to get the best skinny on everything that happens on the street.
4 Dots - Expert: You make friends and contacts with ease on the streets, and fit into the local color like you belong there. Maybe you to.
5 Dots - Master: You're a natural on the streets; people fully accept you as one of their own, and you can find invalualbe information or item outsiders couldn't possibly pick up.
Subterfuge
You're trickiness.
1 Dot - Novice: You lie easily and convincingly.
2 Dots - Practiced: You're adept at getting the upper hand in a parley.
3 Dots - Competent: When there are secrets to be learned, you always come out with the clear advantage.
4 Dots - Expert: You're always ten moves ahead in the chess game, or the conversation.
5 Dots - Master: You're so proficient at guarding your own hand and reading others' plans, you sometimes fool yourself.
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Skills
Do
The most basic of all martial arts.
1 Dot - Novice: Insect - You are an initiate of the teachings of Do and have learned the basics of proper breathing and how to move your limbs with some efficiency.
2 Dots - Practiced: Reptile - You have begun to undersatnd your body as one unit and become one with that unit.
3 Dots - Competent: Four-Footed - Realizing there is a hidden potential inside everyone, you see the current of energy beneath your physical form and can call upon it.
4 Dots - Expert: Bipedal - You may exert tremendous force through the simplest of motions.
5 Dots - Master: True Humanity - an Honored Master or One Who is Truly Enlightened. Your mind is at peace; you know that all things have strengths and weaknesses and can be destroyed as well as contructed. You concern yourself not so much with what can be done as opposed to what should be done.
Drive
Your ability to operate motor vehicles.
1 Dot - Novice: You can drive an automatic or standard auto mobile or ride a motorcycle without a problem.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've driven in a car race with a high school buddy on a back road.
3 Dots - Competent: You know some trick maneuvers and how to get the best performance from a vehicle.
4 Dots - Expert: You could race professionally.
5 Dots - Master: Your Astin Martin is waiting for you. Do be careful.
Etiquette
Your manners.
1 Dot - Novice: You know which forks and spoons to use at dinner.
2 Dots - Practiced: Eyebrows raise at your elegant tipping style.
3 Dots - Competent: You know the best wines and foods to order and how to dress for most social occasions.
4 Dots - Expert: You could plan a United Nations state dinner.
5 Dots - Master: At home with anyone, you can squat with the Aborigines in the morning and sip tea with the Queen in the afternoon.
Firearms
Shooting ability.
1 Dot - Novice: You've had one or two lessons at the firing range.
2 Dots - Practiced: You almost always manage to hit the target.
3 Dots - Competent: You can pull off some fairly impressive manuevers with a firearm.
4 Dots - Expert: You can hit almost any target even under duress.
5 Dots - Master: You'd give Dirty Harry a hard time.
Leadership
Your 'take charge' skill.
1 Dot - Novice: You can head a committee successfully.
2 Dots - Practiced: You can coordinate major projects or speak confidently at town meetings.
3 Dots - Competent: You can manage a profitable company or run for local government.
4 Dots - Expert: Have you considered candidacy for a national office?
5 Dots - Master: You can change the course of human events, like Gandhi...or Genghis Khan.
Meditation
Your meditation ability.
1 Dot - Novice: You can sit still and focus your thoughts for a short period of time.
2 Dots - Practiced: Your mind can achieve a state of peace.
3 Dots - Competent: You can center your thoughts and your spirit under adverse circumstances.
4 Dots - Expert: You can achieve a state of being where others find it hard to distract you.
5 Dots - Master: even in times of stress or disaster, you are able to remain calm, at ease and inwardly focused.
Melee
Fighting skill with blunt or edged weapons.
1 Dot - Novice: You know how to pick up a weapon and use it with some basic fighting techniques.
2 Dots - Practiced: You have some formal instruction with at least one weapon.
3 Dots - Competent: You've been in a number of successful fights and are familiar with the different styles associated with certain melee weapons.
4 Dots - Expert: A worthy opponent, you have earned fame as an armed fighter.
5 Dots - Master: You are deadly with a weapon in your grasp; others consider you one of the finest known combatants with your chosen style.
Research
Ability to find information.
1 Dot - Novice: You're comfortable with most public sources of information, such as the public library.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've used in-depth reference systems, such as the World Wide Web or Gopher.
3 Dots - Competent: You know the contents of many privately owned libraries.
4 Dots - Expert: Given time, you can locate most any piece of information you need.
5 Dots - Master: Whether written, encoded or spoken, you know where to find the lore you are seeking.
Stealth
Hiding ability.
1 Dot - Novice: You can hide pretty well in the dark if you stay still.
2 Dots - Practiced: You've gotten the hang of moving silently.
3 Dots - Competent: You are an accomplished nighttime hunter.
4 Dots - Expert: You can walk silently over dry leaves and trhought mud puddles.
5 Dots - Master: Have you considered joining a ninja clan?
Survival
Survival ability.
1 Dot - Novice: You can survive an all-day hike in a temperate enviroment.
2 Dots - Practiced: You have spent considerable time outdoors and are fully at ease there.
3 Dots - Competent: You are familar with advanced survival techniques, such as trapping and gathering foodstuffs from the wilderness.
4 Dots - Expert: You can live like a king in the outdoors without any modern conveniences.
5 Dots - Master: Making it across Death Valley or up Mount Everest on foot isn't that hard!
Technology
Ability to understand how mechanical and electronic devices work.
1 Dot - Novice: Normal household technology is familiar; replacing fuses, fixing the toaster, and checking the fluid levels in the station wagon are no problem.
2 Dots - Practiced: You like to tinker with mechanical or electronic devices; you could put together a working clock or a transistor radio with no difficulty.
3 Dots - Competent: You have the insight to engineer simple technological items of your own design and contruct them to fit your own needs.
4 Dots - Expert: You regularly invent highly complex mechanical and electronic machines that perform multiple tasks and functions.
5 Dots - Master: You create unique and one-of-a-kind technological devices that do utterly amazing things that no one can replicate.
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Knowledges
Computer
Ability to operate a computer.
1 Dot - Student: You can use a word processing program like an experienced secretary.
2 Dots - College: You write simple programs and possess a knowledge of most operating systems and software.
3 Dots - Masters: You're a competent programmer; you write extensive and complex software.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You coulde make a living through on-line theft.
5 Dots - Scholar: You could probably contruct an AI or break into the most sophisticated computer system in the world.
Cosmology
Knowledge of the universe.
1 Dot - Student: You know that a place called the Umbra exists.
2 Dots - College: You know certain places and things to avoid in the Umbra.
3 Dots - Masters: You can navigate reasonable well throught the Otherworlds.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You are familiar with difficult-to-find persons, places and things throughout the Umbra and the Realms.
5 Dots - Scholar: You are a veteran traveler of the Otherworlds; you intimately understand the contruction and the inhabitants of the cosmos.
Culture
Understanding of different cultures.
1 Dot - Student: You know some taboos and cultural mores.
2 Dots - College: you're familiar with most cultures that have some similarity to your own.
3 Dots - Masters: You're converstand with the sociological imperatives of several diverse cultures.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You are a expert in working with other cultures; given time, you can fit easily into any society.
5 Dots - Scholar: You're at home with most any culture you encounter from the outset.
Enigmas
Ability to put together puzzles (pieces of information).
1 Dot - Student: You can solve a cryptogram or put together a large jigsaw puzzle.
2 Dots - College: Logic problems are a snap for you.
3 Dots - Masters: You are an astute deductive reasoner, difficult to trick.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You can order reason out of chaos.
5 Dots - Scholar: With just a couple of clues, you might solve some of the great mysteries of the universe.
Investigation
Your understanding of criminology.
1 Dot - Student: You are an amateur with rudimentary training.
2 Dots - College: You've had some investigative experience, on the level of a law enforcement officer.
3 Dots - Masters: You're experienced and could set up a successful business as a PI.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You could serve as a field agent for a government intelligence or investigative agency.
5 Dots - Scholar: You fit well within the company of Sherlock Holmes, Hervule Poirot, or Lord Darcy.
Law
Knowledge of the legal system.
1 Dot - Student: Your knowledge is practical, along the lines of most police officers.
2 Dots - College: you could pass the state bar exam.
3 Dots - Masters: You've practiced law for some years and are a full partner in a firm.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You've served as a judge or a district attorney.
5 Dots - Scholar: You could be a Supreme Court justice, or a member of Congress or Parliament.
Linguistics
Ability to understand languages.
1 Dot - Student: You know one additional language.
2 Dots - College: You know two additiontal languages.
3 Dots - Masters: You know three additional languages.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You know four additional languages.
5 Dots - Scholar: You know five additional languages.
Lore
Information on hidden subcultures or organizations.
1 Dot - Student: You posses dubious and sketchy facts.
2 Dots - College: You are certain some of your knowledge is accurate; then again, you may know just enough to get yourself in real trouble.
3 Dots - Masters: You could hold an intelligent coversation with a member of the organization in question.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You've learned some fact they wish you didn't know.
5 Dots - Scholar: You know the subjects at least as well as they know themselves, and they may consider you a liability.
Medicine
Medical ability.
1 Dot - Student: You know advanced first aid, CPR, and the basics to keep someone alive until professional medical help arrives.
2 Dots - College: You have the equivalent of paramedic-level training.
3 Dots - Masters: You are a licensed physician and can dispense medication to treat diseases and illnesses.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You can perform surgery.
5 Dots - Scholar: You are a famous healer, a well-known specialist in your field.
Occult
Knowledge of both trendy New-Age images and dark and sinister rumors of curses and 'black magick.'
1 Dot - Student: You can manipulate a Ouija board.
2 Dots - College: You're familiar with the real intricacies of the Tarot.
3 Dots - Masters: You might be a voodoo hougan or a professional psychic.
4 Dots - Doctorate: You are a respected parapsychologist.
5 Dots - Scholar: Well-blessed with occult knowledge, you could have kept a company with Gerald Gardner and Crowley.
Science
Your scientific knowledge.
1 Dot - Student: You know the basics taught in high school science classes.
2 Dots - College: You understand all the major scientific theories and applications.
3 Dots - Masters: You have proposed some notable theories of your own.
4 Dots - Doctorate: A prize-winning scientist, you have made a significant contribution to your field.
5 Dots - Scholar: You are a scientific genius along the lines of Einstein, Pasteur, or da Vinci.
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