Combat Skills involve all skills that, unsurprisingly enough, deal directly with martial combat in one way or another. A student of Combat Skills concentrates their studies on various skills that bolster the student’s ability to utilize weapons and combat tactics in the pursuit of inflicting the maximum possible amount of damage upon their target. Encompassing such weapons as the sword, the mace, the ax and the bow, this category concentrates on the practical use of these weapons as well as general tactics and strategical thinking.

Lore Skills revolve around skills that are mostly composed of knowledge in a certain topic or field of study. Students of Lore Skills enjoy access to skills, abilities, and traits that allow them to properly identify items, weapons, and armor, to conduct research in creating new schematics and recipes for crafting, and the mastery of languages and cultures of the many peoples of the Decusian Republic.