Character Sheet and Talents - Level 6

Accelerated Learning
Prerequisites: Reasoning 15, Rapid Comprehension
Once you’ve understood the pattern, repetition becomes almost unnecessary.
Effect: +10% experience gained from all skills, abilities, and quests.

Adaptable
Prerequisite: Human
You learn quickly when the rules change.
Effect:

• +10% experience gained from all basic skills.
• +20% experience gained from all focus skills.
• +30% experience gained from all specialization skills.

Analytical Appraisal
Prerequisites: Level 5, Reasoning 5, Arcane Intuition
There is information hidden in everything. You simply need to know how to look for it.
Effect: Allows you to examine a person’s System information.

• Name
• Level
• Class
• Profession
• Health / Maximum Health
• Mana / Maximum Mana
• Rank of their primary skills
• Names of their Talents, but not their effects or prerequisites

Arcane Intuition
Prerequisite: Reasoning 5, Magic Theory 1, Arcane Resonance
Sometimes you understand magic before you understand why
Effect:

• +10% experience gained in all magical skills.
• Allows you to identify magical items, revealing their name and basic function.
• Allows you to recognize the general school or type of unfamiliar magical effects.
• Occasionally reveals information about magic that you have no obvious reason to understand.

Arcane Resonance
Prerequisite: Starting skill Magic Theory
Magic seems to reveal its deeper patterns to you.
Effect:

• +20% to all magical skill experience.
• New spells are easier to learn and create.

Captivating Presence
Prerequisite: Starting skill Influence
Others find it unusually difficult to ignore you.
Effect:

• Gain +15% effectiveness on Influence, Persuasion, and Seduction attempts.
• People are more likely to notice you and remain engaged when you speak, even when they have little reason to be interested in you.

Deep Focus
Prerequisite: Reasoning 5
Your mind can shut out the world when something demands your attention.
Effect:

• Gain +20% skill experience while performing a focused, uninterrupted activity.
• Distractions, noise, and environmental disturbances have a reduced effect on your concentration.
• While deeply focused, you are less likely to lose progress when interrupted.

Fey Grace
Prerequisite: Half-Elf
You move through the world with an uncanny ease.
Effect:

• Gain +10% effectiveness in Agility, Coordination, Dodging, and Stealth-related actions.
• Minor environmental obstacles - uneven ground, tight spaces, darkness, etc. - are slightly easier for you to navigate.

Intimate Resonance
Prerequisite: Starting skill Magic Theory
Closeness awakens something within you - and in those around you.
Effect: Physical and emotional intimacy with a willing partner creates a temporary magical resonance. While the resonance is active:

• Magical synchronization between the partners is improved.
• Cooperative spells receive +10% effectiveness.
• You gain increased sensitivity to a partner's magical state.
• Prolonged intimacy can strengthen the resonance.

Quick Learner
Prerequisite: Reasoning 5
You learn more quickly than others.
Effect: +10% experience gained from all skills, abilities, and quests.

Rapid Comprehension
Prerequisite: Reasoning 5, Quick Learner
Complex ideas seem to fall into place before you know how you understand them.
Effect: +10% experience gained from all skills, abilities, and quests. Additionally, complex concepts, techniques, and magical principles require less practice to reach basic competence.

Resonant Mind
Prerequisites: Reasoning 10, Will 10, Arcane Resonance.
Your mind and magic move together with an uncommon harmony.
Effect:

• +10% magical effectiveness.
• -10% mana cost for spells.
• Reduced chance of spell interruption while concentrating.
• Improved control when modifying or shaping a spell.

Second Nature
Prerequisite: Starting skill Melee Weapons
Your body remembers what your mind has learned.
Effect: Gain +10% effectiveness with Melee Weapons and reduced penalties when fighting while distracted, frightened, injured, or otherwise unable to consciously focus completely on technique.

Spellweaver
Prerequisites: Reasoning 10, Magic Theory 5, Arcane Intuition
You see spells as structures rather than instructions, and instinctively recognize how they might be changed.
Effect:

• You can modify learned spells without needing to create an entirely new spell.
• Minor modifications to range, area, duration, intensity, delivery, and shape become possible.
• Modifications increase mana cost and/or casting difficulty depending on their magnitude.
• You can experiment with spell modifications and receive System feedback when an alteration is theoretically viable.
• +10% experience when learning, modifying, or creating spells.

Unnoticed
Prerequisite: Starting skill Stealth
Eyes pass over you without realizing what they have seen.
Effect: +15% effectiveness to Stealth and Sneaking. Additionally, casual observers are less likely to notice you when you are not actively drawing attention to yourself.

Unyielding
Prerequisite: Will 5
Effect:

• +25% resistance to magical and supernatural attempts to influence your decisions.
• Resistance to fear, intimidation, compulsion, and similar effects is increased.
• Once you have consciously committed to a course of action, attempts to force you to abandon it suffer an additional penalty.
• When resisting a mental effect, you receive a clear System notification.