The following skills are available to characters to allow them to develop their characters. These skills are often of little value during adventures and any advantages they may provide is dependent on the referee's decision during the adventure. All the skills below are level one.
Animal Husbandry (Choose Animal)
Art (Painting and Drawing)
Carpentry
Cooking
Dancing
Economics
Fishing
Gaming (Choose Game)
Horse Riding
Hunting
Literacy
Numeracy
Play Musical Instrument (Choose Instrument)
Speak Foreign Language (Choose language)
Resist Torture
Sailing
Swimming
Tracking
The following role-playing skills are level two, but only the required skill level need be purchased not those below it.
Direction sense
Read/Write Foreign Language (Choose language)
Due to the real difficulties in learning a new language players can use the prefix "In Elven" when they speak in the language (if they learnt Elven, otherwise use the correct prefix for the language learnt). Also, there are some languages that can only be learnt if the character knows specific pre-requisite languages. Such as Ancient Elven can only be learnt if the character knows both the Elven language and the Elven script skills.
For a character to read or write a foreign language, script or hieroglyphs (Shortened to Scripts), the Literacy skill is also needed. Examples are Scripts-Ancient Elven, Scripts-Norse Runes.