Exploration

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Exploration Talents encompass the comprehensive capacity to navigate the world and the expert management of various flora and fauna across Pannotia. These talents represent a foundational aptitude for cartography and the navigation of both known and unknown territories, alongside a professional competence in the cultivation, training, and identification of natural life. Furthermore, they grant the analytical skill necessary to discern minute details and environmental features that would otherwise go unseen.

Wayfaring
Wayfaring encompasses the ability to navigate the wilderness accurately and safely, read and create maps, and explore unknown territory.
Tier Description
Tier 1

At 1 talent point, a Wayfarer operates at a practiced level, having developed a reliable capacity for navigating the wilderness. Their basic aptitude grants them a chance to find useful maps within progressions, assisting their explorations. This foundational skill allows them to safely explore unmapped territory, venturing beyond known trails. They are also capable of performing cartography, documenting their journeys and discoveries.

Tier 2

At 2 talent points, a Wayfarer operates at a professional level, exhibiting a high degree of confidence and competence in exploring wild territories. Their developed aptitude increases their chances of discovering better and more useful maps within progressions, significantly aiding their expeditions. This professional skill allows them to safely venture into and explore hazardous areas that are generally considered too dangerous for the average explorer. They continue to be capable of performing cartography, meticulously documenting their discoveries and routes.

Tier 3

At 3 talent points, a Wayfarer operates at the level of a master explorer, capable of expertly navigating even the most remote and challenging wilderness areas. Their unparalleled aptitude ensures the highest chance of discovering the best and most useful maps within progressions. With this mastery, they can safely explore territory classified as extremely hazardous, venturing where others dare not tread. They retain their ability to perform cartography, documenting their discoveries with expert precision.


Botany
Botany encompasses the ability to cultivate, identify, and handle plants & fungi both common and exotic, in and out of their natural environments.
Tier Description
Tier 1

At 1 talent point, a Botanist is competent at cultivating and handling plant and fungal life. Their knowledge is sufficient for the safe and successful management of common Tier 1 flora. This aptitude allows them to grow and process standard plant materials for various purposes. They have developed a reliable, foundational ability in interacting with their botanical subjects.

Tier 2

At 2 talent points, a Botanist exhibits a high degree of skill, becoming exceptionally adept at all aspects of plant and fungal life. Their competence is heightened in growing, handling, and identifying unusual Tier 2 flora, significantly increasing their success rate with more challenging specimens. This advanced skill permits them to sell in-game crops for money via a ticket. They possess a deep, professional understanding of their craft, allowing them to manage a diverse and more lucrative array of botanical subjects.

Tier 3

At 3 talent points, a Botanist operates at the highest level of competence, capable of expertly managing all forms of plant and fungal life. Their mastery allows them to recognise, grow, and handle exotic Tier 3 plants, which often possess unique or powerful properties. This advanced standing also grants them a special license to legally own and cultivate otherwise restricted or illegal flora, such as certain drug materials, showcasing their trusted and expert status. Furthermore, they can sell their cultivated crops in bulk via a ticket system, receiving higher profits due to the quality and rarity of their yield.


Animal Handling
Animal Handling encompasses the ability to calm, train, and identify animals safely and reliably.
Tier Description
Tier 1

At 1 talent point, an animal handler possesses a practiced ability to interact with and manage various fauna. This foundational skill grants them good chances of successfully tracking and safely handling animals encountered during progressions. Their developing expertise allows them to approach the wild world with a reliable level of competence, fostering an aptitude for reliable interaction with both wild and domesticated creatures. They have a solid, practical understanding of animal behaviour that aids in all their endeavors.

Tier 2

At 2 talent points, an animal handler possesses a professional level of competence, capable of effectively managing and caring for a wide variety of animals. Their developed skill allows them to fully heal any animal with just one hour of dedicated roleplay, showcasing a deep understanding of animal health and first aid. Furthermore, they exhibit a much better chance of successfully tracking and safely handling animals encountered during progressions, significantly increasing their effectiveness in the wilderness. This advanced aptitude ensures reliability and proficiency when interacting with both wild and domesticated creatures, solidifying their status as a trustworthy professional in the field.

Tier 3

At 3 talent points, an animal handler operates at the highest level of competence, capable of expertly managing and training nearly all forms of fauna. This mastery allows them to have an ordinarily non-domesticated animal species as a pet (excluding monsters, and still within size constraints), signifying their unparalleled ability to bond with and control wild creatures, and they are a great tracker and handler in all situations. Their expert understanding permits them to fully heal any animal with just 30 minutes of roleplay, drastically reducing recovery time. Furthermore, their calming influence is so potent that they can attempt to pacify berserking Lycans with a 1d10 roll, succeeding on a 6 or higher.


Perception
Perception encompasses the ability to pick out detailed and precise features from great distances, identify minute details up close, and see through forgeries and disguises.
Tier Description
Tier 1

At 1 talent point, a character with Perception operates at a practiced level, having developed a keen eye for subtle details and inconsistencies. This enhanced observation skill imposes a +1 difficulty check (DC) against attempts at stealth and disguises, making it harder for others to hide their presence, and a +2 DC against forgeries, making it more difficult to pass off fakes. This foundational aptitude allows them to identify the presence of hostile forces during progressions, providing valuable early warnings. Their growing expertise grants them a reliable ability to discern and analyse their immediate environment.

Tier 2

At 2 talent points, a character with Perception exhibits a high degree of observation and analytical skill, becoming exceptionally adept at spotting minute details and uncovering deception. This professional level of competence imposes a +2 difficulty check (DC) against attempts at stealth and disguises, making it significantly harder for individuals to conceal their presence, and a +4 DC against forgeries, making it much more challenging to pass off fraudulent items. Their advanced aptitude allows them to identify not only the presence but also the approximate numbers of hostile forces during progressions, offering critical tactical intelligence. This developed ability ensures reliable and proficient environmental awareness and detection of trickery.

Tier 3

At 3 talent points, a character with Perception operates at the highest level of observation, capable of expertly discerning the smallest details and seeing through the most elaborate deceptions. This mastery imposes a significant +3 difficulty check (DC) against all attempts at stealth and disguises, making it extremely difficult for others to conceal their presence or identity, and a +6 DC against forgeries, allowing them to instantly identify nearly any fraudulent item. Their unparalleled aptitude permits them to identify the presence, exact numbers, and detailed composition of hostile forces during progressions, offering crucial, comprehensive tactical intelligence. This advanced ability ensures they are virtually impossible to fool, solidifying their status as a master investigator and analyst.


Accreditation
Writers Bimberi, AWildRhia, Marytha, NancyBrown
Processors AWildRhia, Vulpes_Pulpes
Last Editor Bimberi on 03/28/2026.