Scholarship is a general skill dealing with an assortment of scholastic pursuits. Initially it is a defence to the Bardic Voice (your resistance rises as your Scholarship skill increases), but it also inclues a variety of useful abilities. It is the skill of general knowledge.

Ability	Description	Level
Dialects	Speaking the dialects of the continental villages.	Apprentice
Voices	Resistance to the Bardic Voice of Command.	Apprentice
Breathe	Breathing hard to rid yourself of confusion.	Practitioner
EnemyTell	Stopping enemies from talking to you.
Conscript	Conscripting men into your guild/city military.	Practitioner
Drug	Using furglewort to make unloyal men submissive.
Writing	Writing notes and letters.
Knots	Tying up a firm knot in your back-pack.
Pouches	Pouches for herbs and poisons.
Hyperactivity	Calling upon brief hyper-activity.
Belts	Utility belts for storage of commodities.
Locks	Slowly working away to pick open or lock up a lock.
Positioning	Positioning yourself to minimize multiple opponents.
Grouptell	Telling to everybody in your group/friends list.
Autolose	Resisting the temptation to follow another.
Parleying	Urging passivity onto a potential foe.
Maps	Reading optimum directions between cities and locales.
Consideration	Considering the relative might of an opponent.
Evaluating	Evaluating the potential yield in mines and trees.
Darsurion	Enhancing the effects of the darsurion herb.
Runeblades	Using weapons with runes on them.
Intolerance	Forcing yourself to become intolerant to people.
Tolerance	Restoring your normal tolerance.
Pouchlist	Listing the contents of your herb pouches.
Anticipation	Anticipating the movement of those avoiding you.
Warding	Warding ritual and demonic projection.
Unsmelting	Unsmelting weapons and armour into component ore.
Oilslicks	Spreading slippery oil everywhere.
Exorcism	Exorcizing vampyric touch from yourself.
Blinking	The ability to control the equilibrium blink.
Scepticism	Disregarding damnation and disloyalty.
Presences	Sensing nearby presences not currently in Avalon.
Focusing	Concentrating your mind to preserve mana loss.
Booklore	Writing your memoirs for all to read.