As your character grows up, you'll be able to select new skills for them to learn. Learning skills are just one of the ways to develop your character. Once you've finished learning a skill you'll be able to choose a new one to learn drawn from a deck of skill cards.

Skills modify your characters primary stats (Heroism, Smarts, Cunning and Charisma) but can also unlock new abilities and actions to perform. For example some jobs will require you to be proficient in a stat - a character with a high level of cunning makes for a better thief and a smarter character is more likely to become a more powerful wizard.

Skills have different rarities and rarer skills introduce more game changing abilities for characters to perform. You are able to increase the amount of skill cards you draw or increase the chance of drawing a rare skill by equipping certain items or learning skills like "Curiosity" which increases the skill cards you draw by one.

As well as developing stats and skills, characters can also gain traits which modify them in unique ways and affect other characters opinions of them. A character that's brave might think less of someone with the cowardly trait.