Skills

Skills are character abilities in The Elder Scrolls. These abilities allow the performance of various feats, spells, or attacks. Increasing a skill leads to leveling-up. The more a skill is increased, the more proficient the user becomes at performing it, usually awarding various perks or decreased Magicka costs. Skills have evolved across games, some being combined, improved, or removed altogether.

Skills by game

• Skills (Daggerfall)
• Skills (Battlespire)
• Skills (Morrowind)
• Skills (Oblivion)
• Skills (Skyrim)
• Skills (Online)
• Skills (Blades)

Skills per game

Skills	Daggerfall	Battlespire	Morrowind	Oblivion	Skyrim	Online
Acrobatics	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Alchemy	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Alteration	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Archery (see Marksman)	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Armorer	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Athletics	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Axe	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO
Backstabbing	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Blade	NO	NO	NO	YES	NO
Block	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
Blunt Weapon/Blunt	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO
Centaurian	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Climbing	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Conjuration	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
Critical Strike	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Daedric	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Destruction	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Dodging	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Dragonish	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Enchant/Enchanting	NO	NO	YES	NO	YES	YES
Etiquette	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Giantish	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Hand-to-Hand	YES	YES	YES	YES	NO
Harpy	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Heavy Armor	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Illusion	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Impish	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Jumping (see Acrobatics)	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Light Armor	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES	YES
Lockpicking (see Security)	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES
Long Blade	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO
Marksman (see Archery)	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Medical	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Medium Armor	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO	YES
Mercantile	YES	NO	YES	YES	NO
Missile Weapon	NO	YES	NO	NO	NO
Mysticism (see Thaumaturgy)	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Nymph	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
One-Handed	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES
Orcish	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Pickpocket	YES	NO	NO	NO	YES
Restoration	YES	YES	YES	YES	YES
Running (see Athletics)	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Security (see Lockpicking)	NO	NO	YES	YES	NO
Short Blade	YES	YES	YES	NO	NO
Smithing (see Armorer)	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Sneak (see Stealth)	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
Spear	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO
Speechcraft/Speech	NO	NO	YES	YES	YES
Spriggan	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Stealth (see Sneak)	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Streetwise	YES	NO	NO	NO	NO
Swimming	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Thaumaturgy (see Mysticism)	YES	YES	NO	NO	NO
Two-Handed	NO	NO	NO	NO	YES	YES
Unarmored	NO	NO	YES	NO	NO

Appearances

• The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
• An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• The Elder Scrolls Online

See also

• Spells
• Magic
• Perks
• Attributes