Character Skills Claim

[ELIZA MARIE CUNNINGHAM]

character skills

This is to claim and put in your profile the skills that your character possesses so that others can know quickly what they are. This is NOT to try and make your character all powerful because they pass some arbitrary guidelines. Even if your character may qualify for it, if they aren't acting like it in character, they really shouldn't be claiming it.

Students will only be at level 1 or 2 anyway - We will not be accepting students signing up for the time being. Since it's mostly pointless. All 1st - 5th years are level 1 and all 6th - 7th years are level 2. If you really want 4 of them in your profile, you can reply here asking for that, but we won't add them to the list. When they graduate, just post here to get them added to the list. (:

There are 10 levels.

If your character has been on the site for at least a term and you're trying to claim a non-school skill (ex. teaching, art, writing, etc.), it will only be accepted if you have actually roleplayed this. For example, if your character has never been a teacher, you can't claim anything above a level 1.

Anyone can claim level 1 in anything as a base. It simply means you're still learning it!

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ALL SKILLS
Level 1 - Beginner - currently studying in school
Level 2 - Beginner - owl achieved (currently 6th or 7th year)
Level 3 - Decent - newt achieved: A or E
Level 4 - Decent - newt achieved: O
Level 5 - Proficient - have used it in their job for 3+ years
Level 6 - Very Proficient - have used it in their job for 5+ years
Level 7 - Very Talented - have used it in their job for 10+ years
Level 8 - Best in the Country - have used it in their job for 20+ years
Level 9 - Best in Europe - have used it in their job for 30+ years
Level 10 - Best in the World - one of the best in the world / have used it in their job for 50+

NON-SCHOOL SKILLS (ex. art)
Level 1 - Have studied it for under 5 years
Level 2 - Have studied it for 5+ years
Level 3 - Have studied it for 7+ years
Level 4 - Have studied it for 7+ years and are exceptional
(The rest of the levels are the same)

* "Have used it in their job" means on a daily basis and it should be the main thing their job is about. For example, Aurors have to do defensive and offensive magic all the time. It's their main thing. They also write reports. But that doesn't mean their writing skill should be as high as their defensive & offensive magic skills. So if it's something they do only once a week, it would really only be 2 years of experience rather than 10.

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WANDLESS & NON-VERBAL
Wandless and Non-Verbal must be lower than your average spell skill (Ex. Charms 6, Defensive Magic 5, Offensive Magic 7, Transfiguration 3 = average skill of 5, so Wandless and Non-Verbal must be 4 or lower).

OCCLUMENCY & LEGILIMENCY
You may claim a base of Level 3. For every 5 years you've had and used the skill, you may claim another level. If you want above Level 5, you will need to prove that your character regularly uses this skill in roleplay. Anyone who is in training will be at a skill of 1.

GIFTED/PRODIGY CHARACTERS
If your character is gifted or a prodigy (you need to claim this in the Abilities/Species list first), they can claim 2 levels higher than normal.

CUSTOM SKILLS
Each character can create one (1) custom skill upon admin approval.
-- It must be an actual skill. Not something general that anyone can do. Not a personality trait. It must be something you can DO. Ex. "History" is not a skill. But writing is.
-- It must be something that you do for a job/career, otherwise it's kind of pointless. If your character has a hobby (ex. knitting) and it's very important to them, we may accept it, but keep in mind that you do only get 1 custom skill.

BE REALISTIC
The numbers are general guidelines for maximums aka you can't claim it if you don't have that at the least. But that doesn't mean that everyone who has 'used it in their job for 20+ years' is the best in the country. Far from it! So be realistic to how your character actually is. You don't want to put that they're the 'best in the country' at something on your profile and then someone try to plot with you about that and find out that your character only mildly knows how to do it.

LEVEL 8+
If you are claiming Level 8+, you must put an explanation of why your character should have that level. Keep in mind that it is not guaranteed, even if you've used it at your job for a certain number of years.

Please note that it will be harder for new characters to get Level 8+ because they haven't had the experience on the site to show off their skills in character.

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There are many skills.

Alchemy
Astronomy
Arithmancy
Care of Magical Creatures
Charms
Curse Breaking - Ancient Runes knowledge; Cannot be higher than their Charms level.
Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Divination - A Seer can be levels 7-10 while a non-seer can only be levels 1-6.
Flying
Healing
Legilimency - New Legilimens are level 3.
Herbology
Non-Verbal Magic
Occlumency - New Occlumens are level 3.
Offensive Magic
Performance Art (any art that includes performance: music, acting, dance, etc.)
Production Art (any art that results in an artwork: sculptor, painter, etc.)
Potions
Quidditch
Teaching
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic
Writing

You may claim up to 10 skills.

Your character might have more than 10, so only pick your top ones. For example, you might want to leave out some that they just studied in school but never pursued after graduation.

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AIDEN PINE

Charms
Defensive Magic
Flying
Herbology
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Potions
Quidditch
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

4

3

4

3

3

4

4

4

3

2

ALARIC INGULF FAUST

Charms
Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Legilimency
Martial Arts
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

7

8

8

7

6

7

9

6

7

ANDY WEASLEY

Charms
Defensive Magic
Flying
Herbology
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Potions
Quidditch
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

4

4

3

4

3

4

4

3

4

3

AMOS SILVER

Astronomy
Customer Service
Performance Art
Production Art
Writing

1

4

2

2

2

CRESSIDA VILLEN

Charms
Defensive Magic
Flying
Healing
Herbology
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Potions
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

4

3

3

2

3

3

3

4

4

3

DORIAN GARETH PAYNE

Charms
Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Legilimency
Non-Verbal Magic
Occulemcy
Offensive Magic
Potions
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

5

5

7

5

4

4

7

5

3

3

EIN HUANG

Teaching
Defensive Magic
COMC
Wandless Magic
Non-Verbal Magic
Martial Arts

2

4

4

3

3

4

ELIZA MARIE CUNNINGHAM

Charms
Defensive Magic
Flying
Non-Verbal Magic
Occlumency
Quidditch
Teaching
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic
Writing

8

6

5

5

5

5

7

4

4

5

GIOVANNA ELISABETA NERO

Charms
Curse Breaking
Dark Arts
Flying
Healing
Legilimency
Non-Verbal Magic
Occlumency
Offensive Magic
Wandless Magic

6

5

8

4

4

5

6

5

8

6

HAE MIN

Astronomy
Charms
Healing
Potions
Transfiguration

4

4

5

4

5

IGNATIUS CASSOWARY

COMC
Charms
Defensive Magic
Herbology
Non-verbal Magic
Occlumency
Offensive Magic
Potions
Transfiguration
Wandless Magic

3

3

3

4

1

3

3

3

3

1

KATIE MICHELLE POTTER

Defensive Magic
Flying
Non- Verbal magic
Offensive Magic
Quidditch
Teaching
Wandless Magic
Writing

4

7

3

4

7

5

3

5

NAT SCHULTZ

COMC
Charms
Defensive Magic
Healing
Herbology
Offensive Magic
Teaching

3

3

3

1

6

3

1

NIKLAS FAULKNER

Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Flying
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Wandless Magic

1

3

4

1

3

1

PRESTON BURKE

Arithmancy
Charms
Dark Arts
Divination
Defensive Magic
Healing
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Teaching
Transfiguration

5

5

4

6

6

4

4

5

6

5

RAFE LAUREN

Alchemy
Charms
Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Offensive Magic

7

7

5

5

5

ROXANNE KEARN

Charms
Dark Arts
Defensive Magic
Healing
Herbology
Non-Verbal Magic
Offensive Magic
Potions
Transfiguration

3

3

4

5

3

3

3

5

4

YSOLT BUTTERWORTH

Astronomy
Charms
COMC
Flying
Healing
Non-Verbal Magic

3

3

4

2

2

2

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MEMBER CODE

[b]Name:[/b] @username
[b]Skills:[/b] [list alphabetically]

skill - #
skill - #

[b]Explanation:[/b] [If you're requesting above your maximum level or a level 5, include an explanation why.]

[b]Five Skills for Main Profile:[/b] [list alphabetically]

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[JOE KING]

Name: JOE KING
Skills:

Explanation:
Offensive & Defensive Magic: Joe used to work in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement before retiring from the Ministry. So he'd be pretty proficient in the same.

Five Skills for Main Profile:

[KATIE MICHELLE POTTER]

updated

[MATEO LIDENBROCK]

Name: MATEO LIDENBROCK
Skills:

• Alchemy - 3
• Care of Magical Creatures - 3
• Dark Arts - 4
• Healing - 4
• Herbology - 4
• Non-Verbal Magic - 4
• Legilimency - 3
• Potions - 6
• Occlumens - 1
• Transfiguration - 3

Explanation: In potions, I have added it as a superior ability to 6 given that he is potioneer, and above all it was one of the reasons why he is Potions professor. So to speak, potions have always been a part of his life, and will remain so.

Five Skills for Main Profile:

• Alchemy
• Non-Verbal Magic
• Legilimency
• Potions
• Occlumens

[KATIE MICHELLE POTTER]

not updated yet.

MATEO LIDENBROCK, just a question is he a trained occulmens. If he is please sign him up for one of the spots on this list. That way I can justify giving him a skill of occlumens in his profile.

Also I know you are claiming 6 and 7 for alchemy and potions but we need to know what he did before being a potions professor to once again justify those two skills being so high.

hogwartsrp.ca/thread/24203/character-abilities-species

[MATEO LIDENBROCK]

KATIE MICHELLE POTTER, thank you very much for pointing out that I should write down Mateo's skill about occlumency. I forgot to put it there ^^ Now it's added there.

The explanation is that since he was a student, he developed a passion for the art of making potions that he began to familiarize himself with and even a member of his family is a potioner. So he grew up around potions and ingredients. I don’t know if I have mentioned before somewhere, but before he was a professor, he worked in a potion shop.

[CRISTOIR O'CLERY]

Name: CRISTOIR O'CLERY
Skills:

Charms - 4
Defensive Magic - 4
Healing - 4
Herbology - 4
Non-verbal Magic - 3
Offensive Magic - 4
Performance Art - 1
Potions - 3
Transfiguration - 4
Wandless Magic - 1


Explanation: During Hogwarts he receive an O in both Herbology and Transfiguration. Those are his top subjects from school.

While still a student he was highly interested in dueling and spent a lot of time studying it heavily. He never missed a beat and continued studying specifically dueling and even started training to be an Auror to continue pursuing his interest in defensive and offensive magic. 

Likewise, his favorite subject was Herbology. He naturally excelled in the subject and continues studying it to learn as much as he can. He dreams of doing something in the medical field or just herbologist in general. 

Five Skills for Main Profile:

Healing, Herbology, Offensive Magic, Defensive Magic, Transfiguration.

[Deleted]

Name: @felicity
Skills: 

Arithmancy - 3
Astronomy - 4
Charms - 3
Defensive Magic - 3
Non-Verbal Magic - 2
Offensive Magic - 3
Quidditch - 2
Teaching - 1

Explanation:
Nothing 5 or above, but Felicity’s favourite subjects in school were Astronomy and Arithmancy.

Five Skills for Main Profile: 
Arithmancy, Astronomy, Defensive Magic, Offensive Magic, Teaching. 

[Deleted]

Name: @ignis
Skills:

• Astronomy - 6
• Charms - 4
• Dark Arts - 4
• Defensive Magic - 6
• Healing - 4
• Non-Verbal Magic - 4
• Offensive Magic - 4
• Potions - 3
• Teaching - 7
• Transfiguration - 7

Explanation: In Astronomy, Ignis has a level of 6 because he was teaching that class from 1999 to 2005, and then with Transfiguration, he was teaching from 2007 to 2019, so it would explain his levels in those classes respectively. However in defensive magic, he has a level 6 that because of his work as a headmaster/professor, he must be constantly working with magic and defending the school in which he leads. With teaching, he has been teaching more than ten years at Firenze School.

Five Skills for Main Profile:

• Astronomy
• Defensive Magic
• Non-Verbal Magic
• Teaching
• Transfiguration

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[Deleted]

Name: @max
Skills:

• Care of Magical Creatures - 4
• Charms - 4
• Defensive Magic - 3
• Healing - 2
• Herbology - 4
• Transfiguration - 4
• Writing - 2

Explanation: None of them are above 5 ^^

Five Skills for Main Profile:

• Care of Magical Creatures
• Charms
• Healing
• Transfiguration
• Writing

[ELIZA MARIE CUNNINGHAM]

Updating.

Will reply with questions most likely, but just so other staff know I'm updating this right now.

[ELIZA MARIE CUNNINGHAM]

MATEO LIDENBROCK

Added Alchemy as level 3. He wouldn't use alchemy skills in making potions, it's a different thing entirely. So level 3 would be the highest. Even if he got an O in his NEWTs, he wouldn't have used this skill for a decade now, so it really would be a level 2 or level 3.

COMC max he can have is level 3 as well for the same reason.

Potioneers are not herbologists, so maximum level 4 for that one as well unless he's worked as a Herbologist full time for at least 3+ years.

Based on his age, potions level 6 would be the maximum for now. Until 1-2 terms from now. And that's if he started doing potions straight out of school.

If you were wanting to add Occlumency, you would have to choose one to remove from this list by the way, since he already has 10 skills listed here. But Occlumency would only be level 1 at this point anyway, so I wouldn't say that would be worth listing just yet.

CRISTOIR O'CLERY

Your requested level 5s will have to be level 4, which is still pretty high for just having graduated. But once he's 3 years out of school (he's nearing the end of his 2nd year out of school, right?), you can claim 5 for Defensive and Offensive. Herbology wouldn't be able to unless he's working full time as a herbologist for 3+ years, which he can't while being an Auror, of course.

@ignis

It's impossible to be better at non-verbal spells than verbal spells, so he can't have level 7 for non-verbal. At maximum, it may be one less than the average of his spell skills. So he can have maximum of level 4 for non-verbal spells.

@max

He can have maxmimum level 4 for COMC until he's worked in it full time for 3+ years. Magizoology can't be added as a special skill because it's the same as COMC.

[MATEO LIDENBROCK]

I’ve edited the skills to fit as you asked (for my three characters), so I hope everything good now, ELIZA MARIE CUNNINGHAM

[MATEO LIDENBROCK]

Reposting...

Name: MATEO LIDENBROCK
Skills:

• Alchemy - 3
• Care of Magical Creatures - 3
• Dark Arts - 4
• Healing - 4
• Herbology - 4
• Non-Verbal Magic - 4
• Legilimency - 3
• Potions - 6
• Occlumens - 1
• Transfiguration - 3

Explanation: In potions, I have added it as a superior ability to 6 given that he is potioneer, and above all it was one of the reasons why he is Potions professor. So to speak, potions have always been a part of his life, and will remain so.

Five Skills for Main Profile:

• Alchemy
• Non-Verbal Magic
• Legilimency
• Potions
• Occlumens

[STIJN VISSER]

Name: STIJN VISSER
Skills:

Astronomy - 2
Care of Magical Creatures - 4
Charms - 3
Cooking - -(minus)1
Dark Arts -2
Defensive Magic - 5
Flying - 1
Healing - 6
Herbology - 4
Non-Verbal Magic - 2
Offensive Magic - 4
Art - sculptor - 5
Potions - 5
Teaching - 3
Transfiguration -3
Writing - 1
Explanation: Stijn has worked as a healer ever since he could use magic and has been schooled in it and working in the fields for some time now. During his time at the Liberamarch his defensive skills and offensive skills improved however since he is hesitant to attack he excels in defensive magic over offensive magic

Five Skills for Main Profile:


Cooking - -(minus) 1
Defensive Magic - 5
Healing - 6
Offensive Magic - 4
Art - sculptor - 5