Crafting
Cartography
Drawing and reading maps. Paper and a blank map are made by it; carried, a map charts the land round you as you go, wider the better you are, and shows more: the lie of the land at first, then the peoples' lands by name, then a compass and a scale. Charting new ground teaches it.
- Group
- Crafting
- Title it gives
- Cartographer
- Grows your stats
- Intelligence (60%), Dexterity (40%)
- 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. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.
All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Cartography 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%), Dexterity (40%).
Titles
When Cartography is your best skill, it names you:
- 30 Neophyte Cartographer
- 40 Novice Cartographer
- 50 Apprentice Cartographer
- 60 Journeyman Cartographer
- 70 Expert Cartographer
- 80 Adept Cartographer
- 90 Master Cartographer
- 100 Grandmaster Cartographer
What you can make (2)
Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.
| Makes | Skill | Needs | At |
|---|---|---|---|
 blank map | 0 to 40 |  2 paper 1 coal | Anywhere |
| paper ×2 | 0 to 30 |  4 plant fiber 1 logs | Anywhere |
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