Learning skills

I closed my eyes and reached for the power I had borrowed with this Include.

Mentoring Great Heroes
“Aite Láechrad.”

Instantly, I felt the world open up. A myriad of possibilities stretched out before me like a great tree, and upon each branch was a skill that I could make mine, if only I tried. Mathematics, divination, precognition, swordsmanship — which, itself, had so many variants that they seemed uncountable — archery, meditation, surgery, how to conceal one’s presence… Endlessly, continuing on out into some grand level that seemed infinite, there existed skills I could learn, if only I tried.

Some, however, would be harder for me. I could feel that I would struggle with an assassin’s skills, like how to sneak up on a target, or with medical techniques, or just generally with things that weren’t related to direct combat. Even with combat abilities, I knew instinctively that Eastern martial arts, like kung fu or karate, would be harder to learn than their Western counterparts.