Skills
Skill values determine how good is your character at doing certain things. The Last Isles is a game in the tabletop RPG tradition rather than an action RPG, so the player (the person at the controls) and the player character are distinct entities. The player directs actions of the player character, but the player character can fail due to lack of skills or bad luck.
Suppose you are a renown archer, but your friend isn’t. If you give your friend a bow and tell him to shoot a gazebo, you can only do that much to help him hit the target. You can help him aim, but he’s still much more likely to miss than you. Your characters are your avatars in the game world, but you are telling them what to do, not doing things with their hands.
Combat
Axe
Axes are brutal and inelegant weapons. Nobles and career military personnel shun them, but no one can deny their effectiveness. Barbarians, rogues, and mercenaries who aren’t so concerned with elagance and honor often prefers axes to swords because they can also be used as survival tools rather than just weapons.
Gaedelech warriors historically have more affinity for axes, so weaponsmiths of Casmorintai continue crafting beautiful and deadly weapons of that type.
An axe requires good
Sword
Swords are archetypical weapons of nobles and career warriors. They come in many styles, from light rapiers used by nobles for self-defense and dueling to huge two-handed claymores wielded by heavily armored knights.
Engwelian smiths are unrivaled sword makers and fencing is a big part of their culture. Swords made from eternal steel are prized artifacts from the pre-Flood era.
Fighting with a sword requires strength and agility.
Dagger
Daggers are often looked down upon as weapons of thieves and assassins, but few nobles go to social gatherings without a dagger hidden under their clothes — they just don’t admit it.
To fight with a dagger, one needs decent speed and agility.
Spear
Spears are traditional weapons of hunters and may be considered primitive, but heavily-armored infantry armed with long spears that is trained to keep its formation can be a deadly force.
K’Tsonga people are famous spear makers and fighters. They often use spears to defend themselves from the aggressive wildlife of their land, but imported spears are also popular with Engwelian big game hunters.
Fighting with a spear requires strength and agility.
Blunt weapon
Blunt weapons come in many different varieties: from crude wooden clubs of peasants turned rogues to ornate and finely balanced war hammers of elite Wichiatl warriors.
To be effective, a blunt weapon must be heavy, so it requires good strength and endurance. However, mages often enchant their road staves to cast spells a spell when they strike their opponents, so even a light wooden staff may be a deadly weapon.