Skill List

This is a list of all of the skills that can be chosen by players for their characters in Ascendant.

Combat Skills
Combat Skills form the base for which almost all combat is performed (with the exception of magic). These take the form of skills in individual weapons, defensive skills, as well as tactical and strategic skills related to combat.

Melee Weapons

 * Axes
 * Daggers
 * Hand-to-Hand
 * Maces
 * Pole-Arms
 * Spears
 * Swords

Ranged Weapons

 * Archery
 * Crossbows
 * Thrown Weapons

Defense Skills

 * Dodging
 * Parrying
 * Shields

Warfare Skills

 * Strategy
 * Artillery
 * Siegecraft

General Skills
These skills represent more general forms of knowledge.

Influence Skills

 * Bluff
 * Intimidation
 * Leadership
 * Oration
 * Persuasion
 * Seduction

Artstic Skills

 * Artistry
 * Cooking
 * Jewelry
 * Singing/Instruments

Stealth Skills

 * Stealth
 * Pickpocket
 * Lock-Picking
 * Traps

Physical Skills

 * Acrobatics
 * Athletics

Knowledge Skills
The skills represent any sort of pure knowledge or that require quite a bit of learning to become a master of.

Practical Knowledge

 * Alchemy
 * Architecture
 * Cartography
 * Geology
 * Healing
 * Herbalism
 * Investigation
 * Research

Pure Knowledge

 * Ancient History
 * Astronomy
 * Languages
 * Modern History
 * Reading/Writing

Labor Skills
These are skills that involve the creation of items or the performance of services.
 * Armorsmithing
 * Arrowsmithing
 * Blacksmithing
 * Bow Making
 * Carpentry
 * Construction
 * Farming
 * Forestry
 * Gem Cutting
 * Mining
 * Quarrying
 * Tailoring

Magic Related
These are skills that deal with things of a magical nature, but do not necessarily require any magical skill.
 * Celestiology
 * Demonology
 * Occult
 * Planar Knowledge
 * Crystallurgy
 * Crystal Metamorphosis
 * Runecraft