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+beastslay:
+  name: "Beastslay"
+  description: >-
+    Power, glory, and wealth. All are within the reach of a competent beastslayer. Beastslaying involves the
+    hunting and slaughter of all manner of creatures on the planes. From victories can be won power and treasures
+    unobtainable elsewhere, not to mention greater peace in civilized lands. By acquiring rare trophies from their
+    kills, beastslayers are able to target particular species for hunting. The skill also allows them to join with
+    other beastslayers to challenge leviathans, powerful horrors and behemoths that appear in the planes from time
+    to time.
+fluxseethe:
+  name: "Fluxseethe"
+  description: >-
+    Potions, oils, and powders of all kinds are used by near every denizen of the realms. Fluxseethe is the ability
+    to brew them. Their uses and complexity vary wildly, and the accumulation of recipes is the lifelong pursuit of
+    many. Experienced (and patient) fluxseethers can brew elixirs, fantastic liquids whose effects can last for weeks,
+    months... or a lifetime.
+havencast:
+  name: "Havencast"
+  description: >-
+    The old magic still breathes. New planes have been harnessed, and yet the old magic remains. Havencast offers a
+    wide range of cantrips: minor spells that can be exactly what one needs at the right time, solving a conundrum,
+    unsealing a lock, or giving another ability the extra kick it needs. In ages past, this magic was known far and
+    wide by the commonest fellow. Today, it is unknown to many. Gaining experience with Havencast can also allow for
+    the creation of charms, minor enchantments with wide applicability.
+hexcarve:
+  name: "Hexcarve"
+  description: >-
+    From nothing, life. This is the trade of the hexcarver, who fashions totems of all shapes and sizes from mere wood
+    and stone, and then and imbues them with enchantments that transform them into anything but. Totems are created for
+    uses of all kinds, sure, but the Hexcarvers are responsible also for the golems. Golems are earth given life -- or
+    at least, the illusion of life. Golems are employed by adventurers, soldiers, and craftsmen of all trades to
+    perform all sorts of tasks, from the menial to the life-threatening. Golems can be used to passively gather
+    resources, complete many crafting tasks, scout the lands, assist in combat, and more.
+magiculture:
+  name: "Magiculture"
+  description: >-
+    Land lies fallow in most parts of the world as traditional farming has evolved to something more: the breeding and
+    cultivation of smaller quantities of exceptional crops, on farms climbing vertically, to the sky, on tiered,
+    floating platforms filled with magically-imbued loam. Within each resultant crop can be condensed significant
+    energy. Their herb and root cousins can be distilled into chemical components for other crafts.
+manatrawl:
+  name: "Manatrawl"
+  description: >-
+    Descend, navigate, and discover new mana wells, extracting magical essences from below the surface of the world,
+    to be used in a variety of crafts. Manatrawling can also reveal uncommon and rare wisps, powerful aggregations of
+    essence that have developed minor sentience and considerable magical energy.
+omenbind:
+  name: "Omenbind"
+  description: >-
+    Magic is the stuff of life and death. Kingdoms have been won and lost by its hand. Knowing this, the ancients long
+    ago developed a technique for harnessing magical power and spells within physical objects like crystalline
+    batteries and gem-laden crowns. These power-imbued objects are called omens. The practice of omenbinding flourishes
+    to this day, and indeed the world would not be the same without its providing for saving and storing up power to be
+    used at a later time, or in greater mass. The most powerful omenbinders have been known to bind energy even within
+    flesh, though this practice is as risky as it is dangerous.
+otherforge:
+  name: "Otherforge"
+  description: >-
+    Materials of all kinds -- from all planes -- are combined in an arcane forge by otherforgers, who have the ability
+    to craft weapons, armor, and materials from even the most bizarre and phenomenal resources. Masterful otherforgers
+    have the power to smelt and temper magical energy itself into physical equipments, with incredible and otherworldly
+    results.
+planequarry:
+  name: "Planequarry"
+  description: >-
+    Travel to the far, rarely-trodden reaches of the home plane -- and other planes, through rifts -- in search of ores
+    and minerals. Planequarrying has the potential to turn up artifacts, which can have powerful affects on their own,
+    but can also be used a components in crafts granting power unattainable by other means.
+spicework:
+  name: "Spicework"
+  description: >-
+    Spices are a staple of life in the realms, adding powerful chemical effects to otherwise mundane foods. Rarely a
+    day goes by when even the poorer classes gain a boon from a spice-empowered meal. Spicework is not limited to
+    edibles however, at least not in the normal sense. Spicework is also responsible for the creation of an impressive
+    (or horrifying, depending on one's taste) assortment of drugs and poisons -- often one and the same.
+synthsever:
+  name: "Synthsever"
+  description: >-
+    The crafts of the age often require expertly-crafted tools, instruments, and devices. Their creation is the trade
+    of the synthsever. Artisans and tinkerers alike, synthsevers have invented and constructed many of the realm's most
+    incredible utensils and apparatuses. Synthsevers often hone their trade by disassembling objects and artifacts,
+    using the bits and pieces for future crafts. And when an adventurer discovers a mechanical relic of which no sense
+    can be made by anyone, they bring it to a master synthsever, the likes of which have been known to activate devices
+    of eons past.
+veilreach:
+  name: "Veilreach"
+  description: >-
+    In a realm where magic permeates life, it also reaches through death. Places of power freckle and cradle the
+    worlds, and past life lingers on. The vielreach skill allows the practitioner to commune with these latent forces
+    and use them for pleasure or pain. The secrets of some places may only be uncovered by a veilreacher. With
+    practice, a veilreacher can even learn to tap into the knowledge and power of beings long gone from the world.
+wealdreap:
+  name: "Wealdreap"
+  description: >-
+    The magical runoff and latent powers of the planes is the foodstuff of untold fungi and insects that absorb it
+    through the dust and dirt. Over eons, fungi and insects both mundane and extraordinary have developed and now have
+    wide use in the crafts. Some of the most powerful fungi is hardest to locate and identify, and the most exceptional
+    imbued insects will take skill and persistence to capture, crush, and consume. This can all be done with the
+    wealdreap skill.
+wildscour:
+  name: "Wildscour"
+  description: >-
+    The worlds are vast and the bounty great. But what of the hidden places, the untrodden wilds? The wildscour skill
+    represents your character's ability to forage and gather resources and boons unfindable in the common places. As a
+    side effect, it also increases your eye for spotting things in civilization, perhaps spotting something on the
+    roads that others have missed. Higher skill and good luck can give your character the chance to find curios, weird
+    anomalies of items with origins unlikely or even inexplainable. One curio can be equipped at a time, granting a
+    special boon... and maybe a curse, to match.
+worldcall:
+  name: "Worldcall"
+  description: >-
+    The travel magic of ages past pales in comparison to today's
+    practice. The worldcall skill allows for the magical transmission of materials, energy, and living beings through
+    the aether. Novice worldcallers may be found sending their voice or a sack of ore across the land, but we are no
+    longer limited to such trivial tasks. Even the transmission of an expeditionary force to another land is no longer
+    uncommon. Today, worldcalling is responsible for the rift gates that connect us to the other planes -- tears in the
+    fabric of the aether, rippling with indescribable lights and colors for which we once had no name. Powerful
+    worldcallers can leash realms beyond ours, fettering us to the beyond, and providing us with unlimited potential
+    for discovery, power, and adventure.