This ability allows you to improve your familiar. You can improve your familiars stats by using one of your level increase stat point rewards on your familiar as well as on you. You may also be able to acquire the familiar new skills if the familiar has the ability to learn that skill. If the familiar is sentient, you can also teach the familiar magic. You may find it easier to give your familiar its own character sheet by this point.

Must have the skill Creature Bonding and the ability Creature Lore.

This ability allows you to ride on the back of dragons. You must of course first either establish that dragon as friend, or have gained some means of controlling that dragon. Otherwise you will instead find yourself as food for that dragon.

Must have Dragon Lore ability and Dragon Speech skill.

This ability allows you to have knowledge of dragons. This not only allows dragon knowledge to also be apart of Creature Lore, but also grants you a +5 to your Dragon Speech skill check.

Must have Avian Kinship ability.

With this ability all the birds in the area will treat you as a friend and not attack you. Furthermore you can make a normal luck check to have 1d6 birds run to your aide to either bring you food or to do a single attack at 1d10 physical attack per bird. 

Must have Creature Lore.

This skill allows you to either inflict or cure poisoning. You can inflict a 1d6 poison or cure up to 1d6 poisoning (reduce any current poison by 1d6). The curing can be done until the poison is gone but each use is a separate skill use.

Bond tamed creature to make that creature your spiritually linked familiar that you can keep until you release or the creature dies. The number of familiars you can have is determined by your Influence. If you have a 5 Influence, you can have 5 familiars. However you can only use one familiar at a time. Creatures bought at shops count towards this number.

A chance to tame the creature you are fighting to fight for you for the duration of the battle. The creature may make a normal Mental Balance check to resist.

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