Imperian

Skills

Perception is a selection of abilities all related to your perception of the world around you. A human, dwarf, Lamira, etc all naturally have certain methods of perception and vision seeks to primarily increase your visual acuity. Starting off with simple tricks of observation, Perception will eventually give you the power of far-seeing, as well as the power to examine your subconscious and profit thereby.

Looking
- Syntax: LOOK or L
  A simple ability inherent in all visual beings.
Glancing
- Syntax: QL
  A simple ability that is inherent.
Secrets
- Syntax: SECRETS
  Using your perceptive powers, you will attempt to spot hidden exits from your room. It should be noted that secret exits can be fairly difficult to spot, and that you will often fail to find an exit with this ability.
Squinting
- Syntax: SQUINT (direction)
Flyers
- Syntax: FLYERS
  If you use this ability while outdoors, you will gain information on those in the skies above you.
Observe
- Syntax: OBSERVE
  This will perform a QL on each location adjacent to yours, in quick succession. An excellent way to ensure your surroundings are safe.
Farsight
- Syntax: FARSEE
  Use this ability to locate players from afar.
Vigilance
- Syntax: VIGILANCE
  At the cost of a regular mana drain, this will increase your chances of noticing an insidious attempt to hypnotise you.
Treewatch
- Syntax: TREEWATCH ON/OFF
  While this ability is active, it will, at the cost of a mana drain, alert you to movement within the trees.
Deathsight
- Syntax: DEATHSIGHT, RELAX DEATHSIGHT
  Using this ability, you will touch the mind of Thanatos, God of Death. While doing so, you will be alerted whenever anyone dies.
Pipelist
- Syntax: PIPELIST
  This command will give you detailed information concerning the pipes you are holding.
Elixlist
- Syntax: ELIXLIST [(type)]
  This will give you information on the various elixirs and salves that you may be holding.
Search
- Syntax: SEARCH
  Force those in your location to reveal themselves if hidden.
Skywatch
- Syntax: SKYWATCH ON/OFF
  The counterpart to Treewatch, this will alert you to movement in the skies above.
Keylist
- Syntax: KEYLIST
  This ability will allow you to see a list of the keys in your inventory and what doors, if any, they open. If you see a key that opens "an impossible place" your key has likely become useless as concerns that lock.
Alertness
- Syntax: ALERTNESS ON/OFF
  Your sense of hearing is heightened enough to allow you to detect movement in adjacent locations.
Rites
- Syntax: RITES
  This will allow you to view what holy rites are active in your location.
Vibes
- Syntax: VIBES or VIBRATIONS
  This ability will show you what vibrations are in a room.
Nightsight
- Syntax: NIGHTSIGHT
  You will gain the ability to see in normal darkness.
Hypersight
- Syntax: HYPERSIGHT ON/OFF
  This will, at the cost of a regular drain of mana, permit you to see actions normally concealed by certain abilities.
Thirdeye
- Syntax: THIRDEYE
  This powerful ability will allow you to see everybody on the continent's location when you do 'WHO', as well as provide you with limited detection of some forms of invisibility.
Tattoos
- Syntax: TATTOOS (player) This will allow you to gain certain information about the tattoos on another player.
Wormholes
- Syntax: WORMHOLES
  This ability will tell you if there is a wormhole in your location and where it leads to.
Rivensense
- Usage: RIVENSENSE
  With this skill, you can locate the bodies of those who have recently perished.
Contemplation
- Syntax: CONTEMPLATE (player)
  With this ability, you may see how much mana a player has.
Scan
- Syntax: SCAN ALLIES or SCAN ENEMIES
  This skill will quite simply locate anyone on your enemy or ally list all at once.
Telesense
- Syntax: TELESENSE
  Though it drains mana, this ability will inform you when many telepathic attempts are made on you or someone in your location.
Appraise
- Syntax: APPRAISE (player) You may use this ability to gain information on an opponent's inventory.
Trueassess
- Syntax: TRUEASSESS (target) This skill will give you the current health and mana of a target. It does not take balance nor equilibrium, but it will require extensive mana.
Warning
- Syntax: WARNING (turns the defence on or off)
  At a constant drain of mana this skill will notify you when anyone senses for your location.
Landsense
- Syntax: LANDSENSE (ALL|ALLIES|ENEMIES|OFF)
  At the cost of mana, this skill will allow you to see when mortals enter the realms.

Survival is a skill that everyone receives. It deals with outdoors issues as well as general survival issues. Abilities in it include being able to swim, climb trees, attack dimensional wormholes, heal your limbs by force of will alone, and many other useful abilities.

Swimming
- Usage: SWIM (direction)
  A person who trains their body in survival methods, will learn how to swim through the waters of Aetherius.
Surveying
- Syntax: SURVEY
  You've learned the lay of the land enough to be able to determine some basic information about your surroundings from a simple glance.
Treading
- With Treading, you are able to stay in one place in the water without fear of drowning.
Perceive
- Usage: Perceive
  Groves have been formed throughout the woods of Aetherius as a form of link between some people and nature itself. As one progresses the study of surviving in Aetherius, one may learn how to detect this subtle difference and even know who has marked this spot.
Assessing
- Syntax: ASSESS (player)
  You've now gained the ability to see the health of another player by evaluating the seriousness of his wounds.
Hearing
- Syntax: HEARING
  
  Instantly restores your hearing.
Dousing
- Syntax: FILL BUCKET WITH WATER, DOUSE FIRE
  With this ability, you may fill a bucket with water in any watery location, and then, while standing in a burning location, douse the fires that rage.
Diagnose
- Syntax: DIAGNOSE ME or DIAG ME
  With this ability, you may check and see a list of what ails you.
Sewers
- Syntax: ENTER GRATE
  Dotted around the streets of cities are sewer grates, leading to the sewer system of that city. This ability will allow you access to that foul area, but be warned that many unsavoury characters reside there.
Satiation
- Syntax: SATIATION
  By using this ability, you will begin to concentrate on processing your food more efficiently. After activating it, you'll have a short period during which to eat some food.
FluidSwim
- Once you have gained this ability, you will be able to swim constantly without fear of health loss due to drowning.
MetaWake
- Syntax: METAWAKE ON/OFF
  Though it will quickly drain your mana, turning metawake on will ensure that you will quickly wake up if put to sleep.
Tumbling
- Syntax: TUMBLE (direction)
  Your body is agile enough that you are able to escape nearly any predicament by tumbling out of the room. Be warned though that tumbling is not the swiftest method of moving and that furthermore, you will lose your entourage and perhaps some defences while doing this.
Crashing
- Syntax: CRASH (direction)
  Using this ability, you will be able to crash through obstructing undergrowth in the forests. You will not lose your entourage with this ability.
WormAttack
- Syntax: WORM CANCEL
  To use this ability, you must first possess the ability Wormholes in Perception.
  Using this ability, you may attack a wormhole and attempt to destroy it. Once you start the process, you must finish it without executing any commands, or you will have to start over. It is not a short process at all, as it is an extremely complicated thing to close a dimensional wormhole.
Felling
- Syntax: CHOP TREE
  If you are wielding an axe, you can take a swing at one of the mighty trees that Arboreals plant and protect.
  The trees can be very sturdy, and it will require many swings before you will be able to fell the tree.
Recovery
- Your body is now strong enough to survive the rigours of using the Tree of Life tattoo far more often than before.
Selfishness
- Syntax: SELFISHNESS, GENEROSITY
  With this ability, you may cause yourself to become so selfish that you can't give away a thing.
Clotting
- Syntax: CLOT
  This will permit you to partially clot your bleeding.
Insomnia
- Syntax: INSOMNIA
  This ability will allow you to give yourself insomnia - a useful defence against being put to sleep involuntarily.
Swinging
- Syntax: SWING UP, SWING DOWN
  When in a forest location, you will be able to swing up into the trees.
Shaking
- Syntax: SHAKE TREES
  By using this ability, you will be able to try and shake people loose who might be hiding up in the trees.
Clinging
- Syntax: CLING
  Such is your knowledge of the outdoors and so comfortable are you in the trees, that you are able to cling tightly onto them, maintaining your balance when in them, even if the branches should be greatly disturbed by wind or sinister persons.
Restoration
- Syntax: RESTORE
  By channeling mental power into healing, you can heal any broken limbs you may have at one time.
Breathing
- Syntax: HOLD BREATH
  By holding your breath, you will gain short-term immunity from anything doing asphyxiation damage.
Curseward
- Syntax: CURSEWARD
  This ability will let you erect a mental barrier against which curses will splash harmlessly.
Focusing
- Syntax: FOCUS
  Your mental survival skills have adapted to the point where you can cure mental afflictions merely by focusing your mind. Be warned though that the mana cost for this is high.

Weaponry is a skill that everyone acquires. Although anyone may use any weapon in Imperian, those untrained in weaponry, and without proficiency in that weapon, will find it difficult to be effective with it.

Proficiencies
- With this ability, you will find yourself able to specialise in specific weapons, such as the longsword, broadsword, javelin, halberd, flail, and many others.
Targetting
- Syntax: TARGET (head/torso/left arm/right arm/left leg/right leg/nothing)
  
  With this ability, you will be able to target specific body parts on your opponent. Because this requires more precise timing on your part, the sheer damage you can do is reduced. However, by battering these body parts with either edged or blunt weapons, you can cause damage to them that is more difficult to cure than simple broken bones. For instance, an limb may be able to be beaten into uselessness, which requires a restoration salve to fix (and which does not get fixed immediately). Attacks to the torso will produce internal bleeding, while attacks to the head will produce a concussion. TARGET NOTHING will turn targetting off.
Weapon Probe
- Syntax: WP/WPROBE/WEAPONPROBE (item)
  
  Using this ability, you will be able to see what venoms or magical effects have been put on an item, and, if it is a weapon, get a general idea of how much damage it can cause, how awkward it is, and how quickly you could use it.
Parry
- Syntax: PARRY (head/torso/left arm/right arm/left leg/right leg)
  
  To use this ability, you must have a weapon capable of parrying wielded. It allows you to automatically stop any physical attack directed specifically at that body part.
Decapitate
- Syntax:
  DECAPITATE (corpse)
  PIKE (head)
  
  Provided you have an edged weapon in one of your hands, you will be able to decapitate a corpse. You may then do whatever you like with the head, including buying a pike and then PIKEing the head. Note that heads, being organic matter, do not tend to stick around too long, and if put on a pike, the pike will also decay away when the head does.
Envenom
- Syntax:
  ENVENOM (weapon) with (toxin)
  ENVENOM (amount) ARROWS WITH (toxin)
  WIPE (weapon)
  
  With this ability, you may layer toxins on an edged weapon. Each time that weapon hits somebody, one toxin will poison your opponent, and disappear from the weapon. They work on a last-on, first-off basis, so if you put aspartame on a weapon, and then put cyanide on, the cyanide would come off first, and the aspartame second. You must have the selected toxin in a vial in your inventory. In order to get rid of the toxins on a weapon, simply WIPE (weapon).
Throwing
- You have now gained skill enough to drastically improve your chances of hitting an opponent with a thrown weapon.
Target Throw
- Your eagle eye and throwing ability now enable you to throw not just at a target, but at a specific body part on a person. Use the TARGETTING ability in conjunction with this.
Shatter
- Syntax: SHATTER (left/right) (arm/leg) (player)
  
  While wielding a blunt weapon, this ability will allow you to deal out an extraordinary amount of limb damage to the chosen limb, as well as some health damage. It's used as a normal weapon, so the better quality the weapon, the more effective this ability is. Proficiencies are not taken into account for this ability.
Behead
- Syntax: BEHEAD (unlucky target)
  
  Once you have an opponent prone (which, for our purposes, includes being on the ground, tied up in any way, paralysed, sleeping, frozen, or otherwise unable to move), you may, if you are wielding a sword, try to behead him. Simply BEHEAD (target) and wait a few seconds. If your opponent is still in the room when you are ready to finish the beheading, he will die, and his head will be seperated from his body.

It has been discovered by scholars of Aetherius that tattoos are replicas of symbols blessed by the Divine themselves. When sketching one of these symbols, the artist is drawing upon the essence of the Divine which inhabits the very air we breathe. The essence is projected into the tattoos, empowering them with the abilities associated with each image.

Firefly
Moss
Feather
Stag
Shield
Mindseye
Hammer
Star
Cloak
Bell
Crystal
Moon
Starburst
Boar
Web
Tentacle
Hourglass
Brazier
Torch
Prism
Tree
Chameleon
Owl
Superscribe

The skill of engineering is the application of science. Those who understand science are able to apply this knowlege to create items to make their lives and the lives of those around them more productive. Those who take the time to learn engineering will be able to create a variety of items to do just that.

Lantern
Clock
Bootspikes
Blackpowder
GlassBubble
Firecracker
Whetstone
Pan
MusicBox
SewingMachine
Icebox
Jigsaw
Fan
Chisel
Recorder
Lapidary
Ballista
Shot
Bomb
Repair
Spyglass
NetThrower
Net
Charger
Flintlock
GunShot
Earhorn
BoltThrower
Bolt
Ram
TimeBomb
Catapult
TuningFork
Tripwire
Blnderbuss
Trebuchet
CannonBall
Cannon

Concoctions is the art of combining knowledge of various plants and other ingredients with a bit of earthly knowhow. The result is a series of concoctions with various purposes, ranging from healing, to levitation, to protection against certain types of damage.

Nightshade
Wormwood
Primrose
Ginger
Myrrh
Planting
Galingale
Sac
Immunity
RibWort (Druid/Hunter only)
Naturalism (Druid/Hunter only)
Maidenhair
Juniper
Endive
Epidermal
Linseed
Dandelion
Mana
Mandrake
Drying
Lovage
Health
Hyssop
Violet
Orphine
Pear
Weed
Toadstool
Fenugreek
SpearWort (Druid/Hunter only)
Kelp
Venom
Frost
Caloric
Feathers
Levitation
Diamond
Mending
Mass
Sidewinder
Speed
Quince
Laurel
MoonWort (Druid/Hunter only)
Gold
Restoration

Taming is the skill used to train wild animals to help modern man. From the ferocious guard dog to the powerful warhorse, all animals can benefit mortal kind through diligent training.

PetList
Capture
Train
Obey
Retrieve
Vermin
Swim
Hunt
Attack
FollowOther
Protect
PetSkills
Fly
Climb
Burrow
Fish
Strength
PetAssess
Conserve
Glance
Stamina
Hide
Seek
Deliver
Speed
Mount
PetConsider
Swoop
Pull
Razor
Bury
Flee
Oysters
Courage
Loot
Charge
SkyGuard
Gallop
TreeToss
Gather
DirtTrap
Joust
Listen
Circle
Befriend
Dash
Track
Intimidate
Observe
Standguard
Transfer

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