Templar Training

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Tracking
Rank: "D"
Skill: Sophisticated Skill
Effect: User excels at following trails and tracks left by others.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Relevant Abilities: Perception Skill. Die Rolls: 5 Die Rolls. Check Requirement: Described. Characters use this skill to follow the trail of animals and other persons. Simply put, a successful Tracking check means the character found a trail, while failure means they did not. If the character fails this initial skill check, they can attempt another Tracking check - provided that they spend at least 30 minutes attempting to pick up the trail again. If the user fails this second check, the user simply cannot find that particular trail. After finding a trail, further checks may be necessary depending on the situation. Darkness, falling rain/snow, a dust storm, moving from one terrain to another (such as from sand to rock), one trail splitting into two or crossing water are examples why a character might need another Tracking check. Some practical applications of Tracking follow:
Limit: Must learn from Skills.


The first teaching of the templar were important to Fjord. But thats far from where he got his foot in the door. Fjord grew up in a small hamlet called weather-lead. A cold and unforgiving woaden forest to the far north continents passed the known world of the Ninja. It was here he learned the most important lessons of life. Everything has a story. Creatures left a story, one that could be measured by its pace and gait. You could measure its breadth and skeletal structure.

The depth of the tread, the deepness of the tracks of the animal could give you determinations of its weight, it could show you how far the soil would buckle under its weight. Fjord would learn all these things from his father growing up in the hamlet. His father was a huntsman so he grew up learning the importance of his fathers trade. As a kid he would often recieve lessons like this growing up. In this particular lesson his father had covered aspects of tracking that he remembered to this day.

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The time spent training and setting up a place to dedicate one's self took a lot of time and money. Resources that were both short to Fjord and his father Father Ivan Sorin's son. But with the entirety of the endless bounty of nature just outside the small village Fjord really didn't need a perfected place to study. The wild made it for him. At a young age Fjord would spend the better parts of his days in the woods looking for things of interest. His mother, a tailor often needed fresh material to work with, and his father would use the extra meat to sell off for a better standard of living.

The tracks near the village were always too busy. Human footprints and scents had long since scared off any sort of quality game outside of scavengers that would come near the village. The journies out into the woods were long and dangerous. Fraught with peril and danger the woods were unforgiving in the lands of Woaden woods. Dire animals stalked the lands, their prints mixing with those who's pelts he was after. Even the most basic of tracking relied on properly identifying the creatures.

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I was at a pretty young age when I first started hunting outside of weather-leigh. The time I spent outside in the woods wasn't born out of any real love for nature. I spent years of my nose in the dirt looking over the different signs I could pick up out of my environment. The important of the trail finding left me with many useful lessons about tracking. The first, I thought as I got down to get close to a disturbance in the ground. I examined the depth of the tread.

In laymans terms this meant the depth the track made into the ground itself. It was a pretty good way of telling two very important things. The first thing was the speed at which the animal was moving. By cross-referencing the differences between the gape between the creatures bounds and the changing in the depth of tread you could get a much closer story about what a creature was doing. It gave you an idea of its fatigue, if it was spooked or cautious.

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Even now I felt the pressure of needing to come home with an animal over my shoulders. As I inspected the dirt I thought hard about the meat this would provide for my family and the hide it would produce for my mother to make more things out of her tailoring shop. In one hunt, with this impressioned foot print left in the dirt. I would kill by kill, pelt by pelt, step my step bring my family up in this world. I felt a sense of eagerness build up in my chest as I looked ahead.

A few snapped twigs. The creature was getting tired, less sure footed. I thought to myself as I kept moving along the forest. There were several piles of gravel that were spilled over and knocked aside. It was getting clumsy in its fatigue. I stayed low to the ground and started to look over and around the low vegitation. I was getting close, but I wasn't sure exactly where the creature had gone from here. I took a moment and started to think about what to do next.

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I looked around for a moment working in small circles from the most recent track that was left by the creature. I started working from my right to my left, I favored my right side, so the right side of my arm was pulling the arrow from my quiver as I started getting closer to the quarry. I got my arrow out, keeping my turning position on my right side it would give me greater movement of drawing the bow should the creature arise. This of course would greatly impact the way in which I tracked. Favoring my right side meant I traveled facing perpendicular to the tracks.

Walking like this provided additional importance. Not only was I reducing my chance of destroying or missing the creatures tracks. It gave me a better field of view as I traveled. I took a moment and examined the tree bark. Not only is the ground a place to look for tracks, but the trees often held evidence of the quarry as well. in this case, a small amount of loose hair that seemed to come off near this tree and briar bush. The thorns on this plant tended to grasp at passing creatures.