Editing Geos:Fate-Fudge Rules:Characters:Skills (section)

==Academic Skills==
'''Religion (variable):  '''
Knowledge of a specific religion.  High skill (or an appropriate specialization) may indicate a knowledge of theology.

'''Humanities:  '''
The study of the arts and literature, along with mathematics and geometry.  Specialization is optional.  Specializations include Mathematics, Literature and Poetry, the Classics, Rhetoric, and Ethical Philosophy. 

'''Natural Philosophy:  '''
The study of the natural (nonmagical) world.  Specialization is optional.  Specialties include Mechanics, Zoology, Herbology, Physics of Esoteric Phenomena, and Chemistry.

'''Metaphysics:  '''
The study of what defines reality: this world and others.  Specialization is optional.  Specialties include World Travel, Heaven, Hell, the Ether, and the Nature of Thauma.

'''History (variable):  '''
Knowledge of a specific culture's written or oral history.  Note that this skill sometimes overlaps with Group Knowledge.  

'''Area Knowledge (variable):  '''
Knowledge of (not necessarily firsthand) an area or a type of area.  Examples: A specific city, county, or country, Mountains (in general), Magical Places.

'''Group Knowledge (variable):   '''
Requires specialization in a specific group of people (or creatures.)  Often modifies social skill rolls when interacting with that group.  Examples: Nobility, the Demimonde, Fae of the Greenwood, sailors.