Your six skills open extra lines of questioning and observation. Each rises by one through particular acts around the town, and each of those acts counts once.
ReasonWeighing what you have found: how far a chain of facts carries you.
3 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Read the town record-post in the Market Square once the altered mill ledger and the forged dock manifest are both findings in your casebook.
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- Read the record-post again after The Mill Fire is closed.
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- Grethva Brenvordotter trains you once the missing miller has been found.
Heroes who start with it: Tomas Vael, Sera Quist, Garr Vane.
RapportHow readily people trust you with what they know.
2 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Find the commission receipt in the Tarnished Coin and bring it to Mira Sevast on the square.
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- Bring Mira her bolt of good cloth (Hobb sells it on the square for eight marks).
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- Maret at the Tarnished Coin gives you a lesson once Mira's cloth is home and the missing miller is found.
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- Maret again once The Mill Fire and The Vanished Consignment are both closed.
Heroes who start with it: Garr Vane, Nessa Dorn.
PerceptionSeeing what is there to be seen.
4 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Take the Miller's Lens in the mill.
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- Look out over the river from the docks' mud bank while you carry the lens.
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- Look again after The Vanished Consignment is closed.
Heroes who start with it: Veren Aldecast, Calla Renn, Dren Holt, Bett Korl.
InsightReading people and the shape of what lies under a case.
5 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Talk to Maret once you have greeted her and hold two findings: the altered mill ledger and the Concord shipment date from the dock notice.
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- Maret again after her rapport lesson, and a third time once The Mill Fire and The Vanished Consignment are closed.
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- Connect threads that run under more than one case: some people notice when you hold the right pair of findings and name the pattern for you.
Heroes who start with it: Veren Aldecast, Garr Vane, Nessa Dorn, Dren Holt, Bett Korl.
HandsPractical, careful handling of locks, mechanisms and tools.
4 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Ask Corwin at the docks about the fire, then speak to him again: he shows you what a badly stacked cart looks like.
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- Work the mill mechanism once the missing miller has been found.
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- Work it again after The Mill Fire is closed.
Heroes who start with it: Veren Aldecast, Calla Renn, Dren Holt, Bett Korl.
LoreKnowledge of Dreskmark's history, records and old trades.
2 heroes start with it
How it rises
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- Read the mill's cornerstone.
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- Read at the Tarnished Coin's reading nook once you have read the Trade Grain Ledger, the River Cargo Log and the Tarnished Coin Guest Register.
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- Grethva Brenvordotter tells you the town's history after that reading.
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- Study the shelf in the apothecary after Grethva's telling.
Heroes who start with it: Tomas Vael, Sera Quist.
