Subterfuge

Hiding

V: hide where you stand. Harder with enemies close and in metal armour. Hidden, nothing notices you; the first blow from hiding is an ambush.

Group

Subterfuge

Title it gives

Shadow

Grows your stats

Dexterity (80%), Intelligence (20%)

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. Each attempt trains it, whether it works or not.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Hiding 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: Dexterity (80%), Intelligence (20%).

Titles

When Hiding is your best skill, it names you:

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

More in the guide: The worlds · All skills