Talents and Inspirations

Inspirations are tracks that count what you do: trees felled, bodies buried, pockets picked, items studied. When a track reaches its goal you can buy that level, usually for Faith. Buying it gives talent experience in one of the five branches (see Mastery). Enough experience levels the branch up and gives you a talent point, which you spend on the branch’s talent tree.

Inspirations

• The count never resets. Each level’s goal is a running total, so one long session can complete several levels at once. You still buy them one level at a time.
• Most first levels are free; later levels cost Faith, which has to be in your backpack.
• Some inspirations are hidden until a technology, a quest or another inspiration unlocks them. Hidden inspirations still count, so they may be several levels ahead when they appear.
• Inspirations for church and graveyard quality only count new highs. Tearing something down and rebuilding it does not count twice.

Talent levels

Talent level	Experience needed
1	2
2	3
3	4
4 and up	5 each

Almost every first level, and most later ones, give 1 experience, so your first talent point in a branch takes two inspiration levels from that branch.

Buying an inspiration can raise the branch one level at most. Experience beyond that is kept, but it only counts the next time you buy an inspiration in that branch.

Experience comes only from buying inspirations. Doing the work itself only moves the inspiration’s counter.

The talent tree

Every node costs 1 talent point. A node can be bought once all the nodes it hangs from are bought. The first node of each branch is “Branch mastery +1”, and every branch has five such mastery nodes; the rest give perks.

Opening the inspiration page

The inspiration page (and the talent tree with it) starts locked. It opens by itself once one branch has two completed, free inspiration levels waiting to be bought.

The earliest way is during your first burial: Last Respects completes when you bury one body, and Pickpocket when you pick one pocket at the autopsy table. Both are free, both are Anatomy, and together they give the 2 experience for your first Anatomy point.