Skills

Skills represent a group of abilities you know or your mastery of a single ability in Aetherius. (For a quick list, see Category:Skills, for in-game help see HELP 4.12)

Skills in General

Generally speaking, there are two types of skills:-

• those that cost ~1800 lessons (these being the General and Professions skillsets)
• those that cost ~700 lessons (these being the Mini-skills and Trade skillsets)

More detail can be found in lessons.

Accessing your Skills

To view your skills, type SKILLS.

To view your command of your skills, type LESSONS.

To view the abilities available to you within your skill, type AB <skill> FULL. You will only be able to use those in white for now.

A brief example

Idrasi Youth is a young Idras Predator.

In SKILLS, he will see all of the General skillset and all of the Mini-skills.

In SKILLS, he will also see Predation, Knifeplay, and Beastmastery (which are granted him by virtue of being a Predator).

He then learns 291 lessons in Knifeplay from his Guildmaster. This puts him at 0% Gifted as seen in AB (or 291 lessons as seen in LESSONS).

In AB KNIFEPLAY FULL now, he will see that he has access to all skills in Knifeplay up to Slit.

While he improves his mastery of Knifeplay, his damage output from his deadly sitaras will increase.

Once he completely masters Knifeplay (that is Transcendent as seen in AB or 1738 lessons as seen in LESSONS) he will be able to use Bladesurge, the amazing ability that lets him strike four times in a single move when he is threatened.

Skillsets

The General skillsets are available to everyone. They constitute some useful and some useless skills, depending on your profession, your race, and the way you decide to play your character! Of note, Survival is the most important of these skillsets.

The Mini-skills are also available to everyone. They are essentially damage mitigation and when mastered grant you a skill - the best of which comes from Antidotes, the ability to Purge blood, a very useful combat skill.

The Trade skillsets are available to everyone at a cost. They allow players to craft and create the world around them - from greaves to masks to great statues. See Trade for more information.

Finally, the Professions skillsets are a group of three skills granted to you when you take up a certain profession; for example, a Diavlous Knight would know the skills of Brutality, Necromancy and Smithing, whereas a Bard would know the skills of Thespia, Voice and Artistry. These will influence the way you experience Aetherius and dictate your abilities in bashing and playerkilling.