Skills are far less important than you might think. Any beginning character can at least try and use a skill. While you might not immediately succeed you'll likely gain the skill at basic by trying and writing it well. We advise against focusing your character solely on gaining military or magickal skills. Training threads are boring to play and boring to mod. Instead why don't you plunge ahead and jump into the plotlines? Pretty often you'll gain those skills in an alternative way. Beginning characters are not weak and hopeless. It often depends on your own initiative and writing talents how well your character does.

Skills in red can only be obtained in play.