Mercenary

Extremely well rounded fighters, mercenaries are the most common type of adventurer in the lands. Easily picking up nearly any combat technique, they are also fluent in skills such as weapon maintenance and animal handling. Mercenaries can work for both good and evil, or simply work for themselves. Occasional mercenaries have even dabbled in the arcane arts, making this truly a versatile profession.

A mercenary is the master of melee weapon combat, able to utilize its melee weapons offensively and its parry, shields, or evasion defensively.

Dirty Tricks

A Mercenary choosing the Dirty Tricks path will have access to a fighting martial art that allows for groin shots, sand throwing, ambushes, along with other tactics of that nature. Built lighter on defense and focusing more on melee, this sub-profession will use poisons to help round out its attack abilities.

Available Tags

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Mercenary

These tags are available to all Mercenaries.

Name	Requirements	Cost	Description
Determination	55 Conditioning	10 Willpower	The mercenary replenishes his stamina, finding greater physical reserves though force of will alone.
Discipline	109 Conditioning	20 Willpower	The mercenary unites his mind with his body, pushing himself beyond his physical limits.

Dirty Tricks

These tags are available to mercenaries that have taken the dirty tricks specialization. Their abilities may be displayed with the Dirty command.

Name	Requirements	Cost	Description
Shiv	None	1 stamina per hit	The mercenary's piercing attacks with a precision weapon hit weak points in armor and armor-like effects, allowing it to bypass some or all of the protection. The amount bypassed scales with tactics skill.
Charm	10 Stealth	None	The mercenary distracts or charms its target, lowering the target's observation. The observation penalty scales with larceny skill.
Vanish	19 Stealth	Passive	The mercenary becomes skilled in the art of hiding, greatly increasing its chances of concealing itself.
Superior Lockpicker	25 Lockpicking	Passive	The mercenary becomes experienced with the art of lockpicking, allowing it to take less time lockpicking without losing any benefit.
Steady Fingers	33 Mechanisms	Passive	The mercenary becomes experienced in the art of disabling traps, greatly decreasing its chances of setting them off when attempting to disarm them.
Ambush	46 Stealth	None	The mercenary ambushes its target, catching it by surprise, knocking it prone, and stunning it.
Pilfer	82 Larceny	None	The mercenary learns to lift currency from unsuspecting humanoids with ease.
Misdirection	127 Stealth	1 Stamina per second	The mercenary learns how to be so inconspicuous that its enemies will prefer its allies over itself.

Skills

(Click on the column header to sort by that column. For an explanation of skills and their values, see the Skills page.)

Skill	Value
Alchemy	Good
Animal Handling	Normal
Archery	Good
Armor	Normal
Channeling	Very Bad
Conditioning	Very Good
Evasion & Dodging	Very Good
First Aid	Normal
Fishing	Normal
Focus	Very Bad
Foraging	Normal
Gnosis	Normal
Kinesis	Very Bad
Larceny	Very Good
Lockpicking	Good
Lore	Normal
Mechanisms	Good
Melee Weapons	Good
Observation	Good
Outdoorsman	Normal
Parry	Good
Shields	Normal
Skinning	Normal
Sorcery	Very Bad
Stealth	Very Good
Tactics	Very Good
Throwing	Very Good
Unarmed Combat	Good