Penguin

Quests that add a point: Discover Your Potential (+1)

This tree is paid with your character talent points. Every rank costs 1 point, and a talent opens once the talent above it has at least 1 rank. Pick a talent in the tree to see what each rank gives.

Cold Blood

Long Patience

Thick Down

Sure Footing

Head for Numbers

Storm-Tested

Good Haul

Colony Call

A complete tree gives +2 Strength, +15 Intelligence, +6 Dexterity, +16 Durability and +6 Luck.

Talents in this tree

1. 

   Cold Blood

   Tier 1 of 4 · 1 rank · reachable with 1 point

   Root talent: the first one you can rank. Leads to Long Patience, Thick Down and Sure Footing.

   1. Rank 1Weather that sends everyone else indoors is just weather.+2 Durability
2. 

   Long Patience

   Tier 2 of 4 · 3 ranks · reachable with 2 points

   Needs 1 rank in Cold Blood. Leads to Head for Numbers.

   1. Rank 1A queue is not a delay. It is where most of the day happens.+2 Intelligence
   2. Rank 2You outlast the argument, and the argument was the hard part.+4 Intelligence (+2)
   3. Rank 3Nobody has ever won a waiting contest against you.+6 Intelligence (+2)
3. 

   Thick Down

   Tier 2 of 4 · 2 ranks · reachable with 2 points

   Needs 1 rank in Cold Blood. Leads to Storm-Tested.

   1. Rank 1The wind goes around you rather than through you.+3 Durability
   2. Rank 2You have stopped noticing what other people call cold.+6 Durability (+3)
4. 

   Sure Footing

   Tier 2 of 4 · 2 ranks · reachable with 2 points

   Needs 1 rank in Cold Blood. Leads to Good Haul.

   1. Rank 1Ice is only slippery to people in a hurry.+2 Dexterity
   2. Rank 2You cross what others walk around.+4 Dexterity (+2)
5. 

   Head for Numbers

   Tier 3 of 4 · 3 ranks · reachable with 3 points

   Needs 1 rank in Long Patience. Leads to Colony Call.

   1. Rank 1Somebody has to keep the colony's books.+2 Intelligence, +1 Luck
   2. Rank 2You remember what was promised, and by whom.+4 Intelligence (+2), +2 Luck (+1)
   3. Rank 3The ledger in your head is better than the one on the desk.+6 Intelligence (+2), +3 Luck (+1)
6. 

   Storm-Tested

   Tier 3 of 4 · 2 ranks · reachable with 3 points

   Needs 1 rank in Thick Down.

   1. Rank 1You have stood through worse than this and you are still standing.+1 Strength, +3 Durability
   2. Rank 2Whatever is coming, you have already been out in it.+2 Strength (+1), +6 Durability (+3)
7. 

   Good Haul

   Tier 3 of 4 · 2 ranks · reachable with 3 points

   Needs 1 rank in Sure Footing.

   1. Rank 1You come back with a little more than you were sent for.+1 Dexterity
   2. Rank 2Nothing useful gets left behind you.+2 Dexterity (+1)
8. 

   Colony Call

   Tier 4 of 4 · 1 rank · reachable with 4 points

   Capstone Skill

   Needs 1 rank in Head for Numbers.

   1. Rank 1Nobody in a colony stands alone, and everyone knows your voice.+3 Intelligence, +2 Durability, +3 Luck
   • Unlocks skill: Colony Call