Butchery

Skill Details

Skill Books: Book of H'ruth
Granted By: H'ruth
Prerequisites: None

Encyclopedia

While city-dwellers may believe that Barbarians eat their prey like wild animals, Barbarians know that there is a lot to be gained by a more careful separation of meat from sinew. Wise Barbarians learn butchery skills so they can make the most of their meals. Knowledge of the key organs allow them to extract the most out of any corpse they decide to eat.

Careful dressing of the kill does more than provide more sustenance. The separation of organ's humours allows one to avoid poisonous portions, either native to the creature or inflicted prior to death. Further, any special virtues of the corpse can be acquired without relying on chance ingestion of the proper portions.

Description

Increases the food value of consumed corpses to 150% of normal. Corpses will never poison you. Increases the chances of gaining 'grant' intrinsics from corpses to 100%. This can be a double-edged sword -- for example, Lich corpses will always inflict silver allergy, instead of 50%.