Skill trees in The Council | Gameplay basics The Council Guide & Walkthrough

Last update: 15 March 2018

Skills in The Council are divided into three trees - Diplomat, Occultist and Detective. Each one of them contains a set of various abilities that are useful in different situations. At the beginning of the game you have to pick one class and select one tree as your main. This unlocks all abilities offered by a given class - you get access to five abilities, all at level 1. This doesn't mean that you can't use other abilities but they become more difficult to develop (you have to spend more points to have them at level 1). After buying a skill (you upgrade it to level 1) you unlock new dialog lines and actions. Each new level reduces Effort Points cost.

This page contains descriptions of all abilities divided into the following skill trees:

1. Diplomat
2. Occultist
3. Detective

Diplomat

1. Etiquette - allows you to adjust your attitude and behavior to a given situation.
2. Conviction - your character is better at convincing others.
3. Politics - your character receives geopolitics knowledge and can use it during conversations.
4. Diversion - allows you to avoid answering questions and to distract NPCs during conversations.
5. Linguistics - your character understands texts and conversations in a different language.

Occultist

1. Science - your character is familiar with contemporary science and medicine.
2. Occultism - expands your knowledge about religions and mysticism and allows you to understand texts written in ancient languages.
3. Manipulation - you can force other characters to perform certain tasks.
4. Erudition - increases your character's knowledge.
5. Subterfuges - allows you to steal items, open locks or recognize fake documents.

Detective

1. Questioning - your character can notice peculiar behaviors of other characters.
2. Vigilance - your character can notice important details or weirdly placed elements.
3. Psychology - helps you understand others better.
4. Logic - increases your logical thinking abilities.
5. Agility - increases your physical abilities which are useful in confrontations where you need to use force.

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