New Feature!!! Native (npc) Skills... This is the very first step in a line of features geared toward Strategy. Just like Player Characters, Natives (npcs) can also have Skills. This is the first foundation piece for several future features, including Native Followers, Strategy and Offline Characters. The point to Native Skills in Atriarch is the eventual integration of Natives as Players and vice versa.

Both Players and Natives have access to the same Basic and Specialty Skills. Just like a Player, a Native can only perform an action for which it has the Skill. The Native Skill improves just like a Player's does.

All of this will be of huge importance when support for Followers and Strategic elements are coded into the game. Followers are basically Natives (npcs) that "follow", help or aid Player Characters.