Skill Shards

Skill Shards use isn’t that widespread, and many frown upon it, but certain professions are able to create gems which hold the knowledge of a skill. This information has to come from someone that actually has the skill, and only contains that person’s knowledge on it. Say for example, someone assisted in creating a Skill Shard for alchemy. Whoever used it would know everything he/she chose to put in the shard, and nothing else. They wouldn’t get any personal recipes, secret tricks, or anything that one typically develops when they learn the skill themselves. They also would not know anything he/she didn’t know about it. So… there might be a plant considered extremely common in other areas, but if they’ve never seen it, the shard he/she helped create would not grant them any knowledge about it.

There are only two pieces of information that can be understood from a Skill Shard without activating it if you have it scanned. The first is the type of skill put in, and the second is the level of mastery the information qualifies as. Since a single shard can only hold one type of skill, it’s impossible to sneak more in, at the same time, the scan will cross reference the amount of information stored with what is recorded on the networks to determine how high it is.