Bardic

Discordance

9 with an instrument: your target's blows and armour weaken for a while.

Group: Bardic
Title it gives: Demoraliser
Grows your stats: Intelligence (70%), Dexterity (30%)
Head start: No people starts with it

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. Every song you play trains it, with an instrument in your pack.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Discordance 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 (70%), Dexterity (30%).

Titles

When Discordance is your best skill, it names you:

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

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