I couldn’t help but grin as I saw the new information cross my awareness. Although it seemed that I still didn’t have any proficiencies, which concerned me. Not that they would be particularly useful, as I had nothing to my name, not even clothes. Furthermore, the beach didn’t offer anything obvious. I’d need to see what I could find in the forest, though I didn’t know the first thing about fashioning weapons. To be fair, I don’t know the first thing about much, at this point.

  I guessed my first course of action would be to choose some Skills, since that seemed to be a large part of being a paragon - at least at this point. As I planned to call up my Skill list once more, I absent-mindedly wiped my forearm against my nose. To my surprise, what came away was blood. As I took in that information, a new notice appeared.

  It seemed that my mind and will had more of an influence on things than I had initially thought. This was interesting. Storing that information for later, I called up my Skill list.

  That was… a lot. I also sensed that some of this felt familiar, and some of it did not. Just looking at the list felt more than a little overwhelming. I saw that there were marks next to Autohypnosis and Knowledge already, which I took to mean that they represented Favoured Skills.

  I also noticed that there were (+) symbols next to a few skills, Craft, Knowledge, and Profession. I already knew from the description of my innate traits that there were multiple knowledge fields, so based on that I felt it was a safe guess to assume that the symbol meant there were multiple options under that skill category. I also noticed that there were a number of Lore and Manipulation skills. I was more than a little curious about why they weren’t contained in their own subsections, or why Lore didn’t show under Knowledge. Curious, I started to explore the skills. After a bit of mental prodding, I was able to get a brief description of each.

  Needless to say, it was a lot to process, and I had some decisions to make.

  Some decisions were pretty self-evident. As I looked out at the empty shore and the forest stretching behind me, Survival seemed pretty important. That would make 2 out of 10. 8 more to choose.

  Acrobatics seemed useful, as did Athletics. I didn’t know anything about Magic, regardless of its form, so my thinking was that I could leave that for the time being.

  Perception was crucial. I didn’t want to be the kind of person oblivious to the world around me. That’s 5 out of 10. Stealth also seemed like a survival skill.

  Now that the obvious options were out of the way, decisions got a lot harder.