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Skills

Skills aligned with a character’s caste or aspect, as well as all favored skills, start at a rating of one. Solar exalts have three caste skills, and may favor a further three. Sidereal and Terrestrial exalts have three caste skills, but may only favor a further two. Lunars have no caste skills, but may each favor any four skills. Solar and Lunar Exalted start with 15 ranks’ worth of skills, while Sidereal and Dynastic Terrestrials have 14, plus 4 ranks of automatically assigned skills based on background. Heroic Mortals, sadly, start with a mere 12 ranks of skills, and favor only a single skill at most. Skills may only be raised up to a maximum of rank 3 with these points, but may be increased further with bonus points (and often are).

By comparision, a normal human has at most five ranks of skills, and seldom more than two ranks in any.

Frequently, more than a single skill might me appropriate for a given task. While only one may be rolled in a given pool at one time, different skills reflect different approaches and applications of knowledge, and certain circumstances or charms might make it advantageous to have access to all of them.

Rank Scale for Skills:
0 – Uninitiated. The character has no knowledge of this skill.
1 – Familiar. The character has some facility with the skill, and is able to perform basic tasks or assist with more advanced ones.
2 – Professional. The character has a comfortable grasp of most of the skill’s applications, and should be able to practice it for a living.
3 – Expert. The character has a high level of proficiency with the skill, and is likely to be particularly talented or well-trained.
4 – Master. This rank of skill generally only comes from long experience and solid effort. Few can achieve this level without great devotion to study and practice; though the Exalted can attain with relative ease heights mortals struggle to reach.
5 – Grandmaster. At this point, the skill ceases to define the character and the character begins to define the skill. Others may seek the character out to benefit from their knowledge. Exalted, especially celestial exalts, tend to reach this rank in several skills by the time they outlive a mortal lifespan.

Solar/Abyssal

Dawn/Dusk
Marksmanship – Combat at a distance, with projectiles or thrown objects
Melee – Close-quarters combat, with weapons or one’s own body
Warfare – Leadership and tactics suitable for bringing groups into battle

Zenith/Midnight
Presence – Influencing others through sheer force of personality
Resistance – Toughness and general health
Survival – Knowledge of and attunement to the world around you

Twilight/Daybreak
Craft – Making and fixing things
Lore – Education and research
Occult – Aspects of both Lore and Craft, as applied to the supernatural

Night/Day
Athletics – Fitness and body control
Awareness – Alertness and sharpness of senses
Subterfuge – Stealth, and the capacity for less scrupulous arts

Eclipse/Moonshadow
Culture – Knowledge of the arts and other civilized pursuits
Ride – Controlling beasts or vehicles
Socialize – Understanding and manipulating groups and individuals

Terrestrial

Air
Awareness
Lore
Marksmanship

Fire
Athletics
Presence
Socialize

Earth
Craft
Melee
Resistance

Water
Culture
Subterfuge
Warfare

Wood
Occult
Ride
Survival

Sidereal

Journeys
Athletics
Ride
Survival

Serenity
Craft
Culture
Socialize

Secrets
Lore
Occult
Subterfuge

War
Melee
Presence
Warfare

Endings
Awareness
Marksmanship
Resistance

Specializations

These skills are necessarily broad; within every skill, there are many different applications and areas of study. However, not all practitioners of a skill have mastered all of these purviews equally. For each point of rating in a skill, you must choose one specialty within that skill. You may not take the same specialty multiple times, but multiple specialties may apply to the same task.

These can be broad or specific, as you like; it is considered poor form to choose a specialty that covers all applications of the skill, or even a vast majority. Mind you, specialties have certain advantages for those that have them:

- Certain advanced or uncommon applications of the skill may require specialization to use
- For each specialty that applies, you may ignore a single die of penalties
- In ties between opposed skill rolls, the narrower specialty wins

Examples of specialties:

- (Melee) With Swords, With My Father’s Sword, While Wounded
- (Culture) Sculpting, Jade Sculpting, Dancing, Singing
- (Craft) Metalworking, Orichalcum Forging, Rush Jobs, Taking My Time

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 – Grandmaster. At this point, the skill ceases to define the character and the character begins to define the skill. Others may seek the character out to benefit from their knowledge. Exalted, especially celestial exalts, tend to reach this rank in several skills by the time they outlive a mortal lifespan.
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 Marksmanship – Combat at a distance, with projectiles or thrown objects
 Melee – Close-quarters combat, with weapons or one’s own body
 Warfare – Leadership and tactics suitable for bringing groups into battle
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 Presence – Influencing others through sheer force of personality
 Resistance – Toughness and general health
 Survival – Knowledge of and attunement to the world around you
-[[TwilightBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Skills/Daybreak]]
+[[TwilightBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Daybreak]]
 Craft – Making and fixing things
 Lore – Education and research
 Occult – Aspects of both Lore and Craft, as applied to the supernatural
-[[NightBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Skills/Day]]
+[[NightBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Day]]
 Athletics – Fitness and body control
 Awareness – Alertness and sharpness of senses
 Subterfuge – Stealth, and the capacity for less scrupulous arts
-[[EclipseBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Skills/Moonshadow]]
+[[EclipseBraincraftRemakeofExalted/Moonshadow]]
 Culture – Knowledge of the arts and other civilized pursuits
 Ride – Controlling beasts or vehicles