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+### List of General Skills
+
+- Awareness
+- Athletics
+- Security
+- Public Speaking
+- Negotiation
+- Medicine
+- Anatomy
+- Herbalisim
+- Performing
+- Sluthing
+
+### List of Specialty Skills
+
+These skills are only available to a creature if they are listed in its creature definition.
+
+- Flying
+- Telethetics
+
+### Descriptions of Skills
+
+#### Awareness
+
+This is a creatures general awareness, it covers all 5 phisical senses.
+
+#### Athletics
+
+This is how well a creature can do phisical things, like running, jumping, swimming, etc.
+
+#### Security
+
+This is how well a creature understands security, their ability to break into or prevent the breaking into of things for instance.
+
+#### Public Speaking
+
+This is how well a creature can communicate with a large group of its peers.
+
+#### Negotiation
+
+This is a creatures ability to convince or achive their goal using verbal communication.
+
+#### Medicine
+
+This is a creatures knowledge of caring for others of its kind, and ability to learn how to care for creatures of other kinds.
+
+#### Anatomy
+
+This is a creatures knowledge of the phisical body, and ability to learn of other creatures anatomy.
+
+#### Herbalisim
+
+This is a creatures knowledge of growing, identifying, and using plants.
+
+#### Performing
+
+This is a creatures ability to entertain, impersonate, create art, etc. 
+
+#### Sluthing
+
+This is a creatures abolity to use deductive reasoning, investigate, etc. 
+
+#### Flying
+
+This is a creatures ability to fly, and how well they can fly.
+
+#### Telethetics
+
+This is a creatures ability to use their mind to effect the world, telepathy, telekinetics, etc.
+
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