Tracking
Availability: Authored scenes live -- One-shot, location-specific interactions for this skill are live. The broader repeatable 'track' system through tracks, spoor, patrol traces, quest trails, and creature sign remains planned.
Follow tracks and signs to locate creatures or people.
Domain Synergy: Naturalism
How It Improves: Use it in the world, practice it directly with practice tracking, and seek out trainers when independent practice begins to slow.
Design Milestones (not live unlocks):
- Fresh tracks in soft ground
- Day-old tracks, broken branches, disturbed earth
- Tracks on stone, through water, in dense forest
- Week-old trails, magical concealment partially pierced
- No quarry escapes your eye
Practical Advice: Skills are long-term investments. Keep the tool or context they need on hand, use them in the zones that support them, and check skills often so you can lean into what your character is already getting good at.