Nature

Sailing

Handling a boat: a raft, a rowboat, a longship. The better you are, the quicker and nimbler your boat; each boat is made for a level of skill, and below it it's slow and clumsy. Sailing teaches it.

Group: Nature
Title it gives: Mariner
Grows your stats: Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%)
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. Doing it trains it: each taming try, each ride, each night by the fire.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Sailing 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: Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%).

Titles

When Sailing is your best skill, it names you:

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

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