Nature

Animal Taming

Tame wild animals (T, next to one) so they follow and fight for you. Harder beasts need more skill.

Group

Nature

Title it gives

Tamer

Grows your stats

Intelligence (60%), Strength (40%)

Head start

Turkic (most of all Kara: the Black Way)

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. Doing it trains it: each taming try, each ride, each night by the fire.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Animal Taming 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 (60%), Strength (40%).

Titles

When Animal Taming is your best skill, it names you:

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

What you can tame

You have five pet slots. Farm animals take none. Animal Lore helps your chances.

More in the guide: Pets, riding and flying · All skills