User blog comment:Mr.Sleeping/SKYRIM: Confirmed Skills/@comment-213.139.45.154-20111014212759

so far there is 3 main catagories for skills WARRIOR has archery block heavy armor one handed two handed smithing

MAGE has alteration conjuration destruction illusion restoration enchanting

THIEF has alchemy light armor lock picking pickpocketing sneak speechcraft

mystycism has been removed from the game

keep in mind that though these are group specific you can level whatever you want and make whatever character you want. just like in oblivion if you want to make a character that wears plate sneaks around throws fireballs and shoots arows you can. just cuz your a predominant warrior doesnt mean you cant have high states in mage or thief abilities. IMO they shouldnt have grouped them at all becausee people get confused. theres no set way you have to play, if you really want to you could actually max out everything

bethesda also cut out stuff like athletics and acrobatics because they were unnessesary, as todd said in the vids on youtube they wanted to take unnessesary (sp? >.>) skills out of the game. "everyone runs and jumps these arent things that need their own catagories so we combined them into other abilities tthat it would make more sense in." pretty much. also the mystisism (sp?) spells have been dished out among the other spell classes.

and you can dual wield whatever and cast at or close to the same time with both triggers