Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with chopping weapons. Chopping weapons are any weapons that you can chop with, such as axes, hatchets, falchion, and scythes. Any weapon that can have a chopping attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• Causes 1d8 bleed damage per round  and minor wounds to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a chop reduction greater than 30%
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as their chop reduction is under 60% but greater than 30%
• Critical Hit breaks wooden shields
• If used against a parrying weapon, critical hit -5 breaks the weapon if it is a long wooden weapon
• Critical Hit - 5 against unarmored target or armored target with a chop reduction less than 30% has a 1 in 6 (6 on a 1d6) chance of amputation of limb struck

This skill cannot be used with Basic Chopping Proficiency, Novice Chopping Proficiency, or Advanced Chopping Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with chopping weapons. Chopping weapons are any weapons that you can chop with, such as axes, hatchets, falchion, and scythes. Any weapon that can have a chopping attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a chop reduction greater than 30%
• Critical Hit breaks wooden shields
• If used against a parrying weapon, critical hit -10 breaks the weapon if it is a long wooden weapon

This skill cannot be used with Basic Chopping Proficiency or Novice Chopping Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with chopping weapons. Chopping weapons are any weapons that you can chop with, such as axes, hatchets, falchion, and scythes. Any weapon that can have a chopping attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 2
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 2
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 2
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Critical Hit breaks wooden shields

This skill cannot be used with Basic Chopping Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with chopping weapons. Chopping weapons are any weapons that you can chop with, such as axes, hatchets, falchion, and scythes. Any weapon that can have a chopping attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 1

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with piercing weapons. Piercing weapons are any weapons that you can stab and pierce with, such as knives, swords, spears, hira-shuriken, darts, and arrows. Any weapon that can have a piercing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 4
• 20% of damage dealt ignores armor
• Causes 1d8 bleed damage per round  and minor wounds to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a slash reduction greater than 30%
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as their slash reduction is under 60% but greater than 30%

This skill cannot be used with Basic Piercing Proficiency, Novice Piercing Proficiency, or Advanced Piercing Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with piercing weapons. Piercing weapons are any weapons that you can stab and pierce with, such as knives, swords, spears, hira-shuriken, darts, and arrows. Any weapon that can have a piercing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d4 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 3
• 10% of damage dealt ignores armor
• Causes 1d6 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to armored targets as long as they do not have a slash reduction greater than 30%

This skill cannot be used with Basic Piercing Proficiency or Novice Piercing Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with piercing weapons. Piercing weapons are any weapons that you can stab and pierce with, such as knives, swords, spears, hira-shuriken, darts, and arrows. Any weapon that can have a piercing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 2
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 2
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 2
• 10% of damage dealt ignores armor
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets

This skill cannot be used with Basic Piercing Proficiency

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with piercing weapons. Piercing weapons are any weapons that you can stab and pierce with, such as knives, swords, spears, hira-shuriken, darts, and arrows. Any weapon that can have a piercing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 1

Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with bludgeoning or blunt weapons. This is basically ramming someone with a blunt weapon in a thrusting motion. Blunt weapons are any weapons that you can bludgeon with, such as rods, staffs, tonfa, fists, feet, handle of most weapons, and clubs. Any weapon that can have a bludgeoning attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 1d6 + 1
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 4
• Causes wounds to unarmored targets
• Causes wounds to armored targets as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 30%
• Critical Hit stuns unarmored targets for 1d3 rounds
• Critical Hit stuns armored targets for 1d3 rounds as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 30%
• Dazes armored targets for 1d3 rounds as long as bash reduction isn't greater than 50%
• Critical Hit has a 1 in 6 chance of breaking a bone of the area hit (6 on a 1d6 roll) if the target is unarmored, or 10% chance (10 or less on percentile dice) if the target is armored but bash reduction isn't greater than 30%

This skill cannot be used with Basic Bludgeoning Proficiency, Novice Bludgeoning Proficiency, or Advanced Bludgeoning Proficiency

With this haunting dance you will roll a 1d6 for each in the area of effect, friend or foe. If you roll a 6, that target is instantly dead.

Effects of this powerful dance depend upon your element:

• Earth: causes a tremor which knocks down all targets within the area around you friend or foe;
• Air: creates a tempest around the area preventing projectiles from being fired into and from the affected area for 1d6 rounds;
• Water: removes hunger, fatigue, and weak poisons from all in the area, friend and foe;
• Fire: catches any target that is in the area, friend or foe, on fire causing 2d12 + Perform damage per round until the fire is put out;
• Life: restores 1d12 + Perform Vitality to all targets in the area, friend or foe, each round for 1d6rounds;
• Death: deals 1d6 + Perform points of poison damage to all targets in the area, friend or for, each round for 1d6 rounds;
• Time: grants everyone in the area, friend or foe, 3 x move rate for 1d6 rounds;
• Space: stuns all in the area, friend and foe, for 1 round

Restores 1d8 + Perform worth of Vitality to any in area, including self, friend, and foe.

Removes from any in area (friend or foe) poison, sickness, and nausea status effects.

Restores 1d6 + Perform worth of Soul to any in area, including self, friend, and foe.

With this haunting song you will roll a 1d6 for each in the area of effect, friend or foe. If you roll a 6, that target is instantly dead.

This powerful song causes different effects based on your runic element:]

• Earth: grants self and allies Perform as physical and magical protection; inflicts Perform as poison damage to enemies
• Air: grants self and allies double move range, throw range, and bow range; halves enemies move, bow, and throw ranges
• Water: grants self and allies Perform as a percentage absorption of magic damage to restore Vitality; causes enemies visual distortion
• Fire: grants self and allies Perform as a bonus to melee, throw, and bow power; decreases enemies melee, bow, and throw power by Perform
• Life: grants self and allies Perform worth of Vitality and Power restoration for duration per round; dazes enemies
• Death: grants self and allies Perform as a bonus to Arcana and immunity to poisons; inflicts fear and anxiety on enemies (both hard Mental Balance checks)
• Time: grants self and allies one extra turn of actions; stops enemies
• Space: grants self and allies ability to teleport attacks to anywhere on battlefield they can see; inflicts enemies with blindness