Nature

Animal Lore

Read a creature: how hard it is to tame and how hurt it is. Also makes taming a little easier.

Group: Nature
Title it gives: Naturalist
Grows your stats: Intelligence (100%)
Head start: Celtic (most of all Folk of Samhain)

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Doing it trains it: each taming try, each ride, each night by the fire.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Animal Lore to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Intelligence (100%).

Titles

When Animal Lore is your best skill, it names you:

30 Neophyte Naturalist
40 Novice Naturalist
50 Apprentice Naturalist
60 Journeyman Naturalist
70 Expert Naturalist
80 Adept Naturalist
90 Master Naturalist
100 Grandmaster Naturalist

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