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'''Anatomy''' is the study of living bodies. Use it on a person or creature to judge how strong and quick they are, but its real value is what it does for you without being used: it makes your weapon hits harder, makes your bandages heal more, unlocks the stun and other fighting tricks, and helps unarmed fighters and mages defend themselves.

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== At a glance ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Skill category
| Combat
|-
! Active use
| Examine a person or creature within 8 tiles to judge their Strength, Dexterity and stamina
|-
! Passive benefits
| More weapon damage, bigger bandage heals, cures and resurrections, the wrestling stun, concussion and crushing blows, and better defense with empty hands
|-
! Works with
| [[Skills/Healing|Healing]], [[Skills/Tactics|Tactics]], [[Skills/Wrestling|Wrestling]] and every weapon skill
|-
! Skill cap
| 100 (Grandmaster), raised up to 120 with Anatomy power scrolls
|-
! Stats it can raise
| Intelligence (mostly), Strength and Dexterity
|-
! Starting gear
| Choosing Anatomy as a starting skill gives you 3 bandages and a robe.
|}

== Examining someone ==
[[File:NB_Healing_Bandage.png|right|link=|Bandages]]
# Use the Anatomy skill (the button beside it in your skills list, or a macro). You'll see ''"Whom shall I examine?"''
# Target a person or creature within '''8 tiles'''.
# On a success, a message over their head tells you how strong and dexterous they look. At '''65''' Anatomy or more, a second message tells you how much '''stamina''' they have left, in steps of ten percent: ''"This being is at seventy percent endurance."''

Your chance of success equals your Anatomy (50% at 50, 100% at 100). The descriptions aren't exact: the game adds a random error to the stats it reads, and the error shrinks as your skill rises.

{| class="wikitable"
! Your Anatomy !! Possible error in each stat
|-
| 0 || ±25
|-
| 25 || ±19
|-
| 50 || ±13
|-
| 75 || ±7
|-
| 100 || ±0
|}

=== What the descriptions mean ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Stat !! Strength looks… !! Dexterity looks…
|-
| 0–9 || ''like they have trouble lifting small objects'' || ''like they barely manage to stay standing''
|-
| 10–19 || ''rather feeble'' || ''very clumsy''
|-
| 20–29 || ''somewhat weak'' || ''somewhat uncoordinated''
|-
| 30–39 || ''to be of normal strength'' || ''moderately dexterous''
|-
| 40–49 || ''somewhat strong'' || ''somewhat agile''
|-
| 50–59 || ''very strong'' || ''very agile''
|-
| 60–69 || ''extremely strong'' || ''extremely agile''
|-
| 70–79 || ''extraordinarily strong'' || ''extraordinarily agile''
|-
| 80–89 || ''strong as an ox'' || ''moves like quicksilver''
|-
| 90–99 || ''stronger than anything you have ever seen'' || ''faster than anything you have ever seen''
|-
| 100 or more || ''superhumanly strong'' || ''superhumanly agile''
|}

== What Anatomy does for you ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Where it helps !! What it does
|-
| '''Weapon damage''' || '''+1% damage for every 5 points''', plus an extra '''+10%''' at 100. That's +30% at Grandmaster, with any weapon or your fists. It's added to the [[Skills/Tactics|Tactics]] and Strength bonuses.
|-
| '''[[Skills/Healing|Healing]] with bandages''' || Every bandage heals '''Anatomy ÷ 5''' more health. You need '''60''' Anatomy to cure poison and '''80''' to resurrect.
|-
| '''[[Skills/Wrestling|Wrestling]]''' || The '''stun''' needs 80 Anatomy and its chance rises with Anatomy. Paralyzing Blow with your fists also needs 80.
|-
| '''Two-handed weapons''' || From 80 Anatomy, axes and polearms land '''concussion blows''' and the war hammer lands '''crushing blows''', each with an Anatomy ÷ 4 percent chance per hit. Two-handed spears freeze targets with the same chance at any Anatomy.
|-
| '''Defense with empty hands''' || When you're unarmed, your defense is the higher of your Wrestling and '''(Anatomy + [[Skills/Evaluating Intelligence|Evaluating Intelligence]] + 20) ÷ 2'''. A mage with 100 in both is as hard to hit as a 110 wrestler.
|}

== Training Anatomy ==
* '''Fighting''' is the easiest way: every hit you land with a weapon or your fists is a chance to gain Anatomy.
* '''Bandaging''' trains it too. Each time you finish a bandage on someone who needed healing, both [[Skills/Healing|Healing]] and Anatomy get a chance to rise.
* '''Examining''' people and creatures also works. Your chance to succeed (and so to gain) is your Anatomy, so it's quick early on and slows as you improve.
* '''Below 10.0''' you gain on every attempt, sometimes several tenths at once. Above that, each attempt has a chance to gain 0.1.
* The '''harder the attempt''' is for your skill level, the better your chance to gain. Your chance also drops as you get closer to your Anatomy cap and to your total skill cap of '''700'''.
* If you've set Anatomy to go down (the arrow in your skills list), gains elsewhere can lower it to make room under your total cap. Lock skills you want to keep.
* Reaching 100.0 adds Anatomy to the '''Skills Mastered''' count on your achievements.
* Healers, healer guildmasters and fortune tellers will train you for gold: up to a third of their own skill, at most '''42.0''', for '''1 gold per 0.1''' points. Ask them (or use their context menu) to train the skill, then drop the gold on them.

'''Stats:''' each successful use has a smaller chance (under 1%) to raise Strength, a smaller chance (under 1%) to raise Dexterity and about a 2% chance to raise Intelligence by 1 point. Each stat can rise at most once every 10 minutes, and only if it's set to rise.

=== Suggested path ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Anatomy !! How to train
|-
| 0 to 42 || Buy the first points from a healer.
|-
| 42 to 70 || Examine creatures and townsfolk while you fight and bandage. Most warriors never need to train it separately.
|-
| 70 to 100 || Keep fighting and bandaging. Healing others during group hunts gives lots of chances.
|}

=== Power scrolls ===
[[File:NB_PowerScroll.png|right|link=|Power scroll]]
Anatomy tops out at '''100.0''' unless you use a '''Anatomy power scroll'''. There are three kinds: ''exalted'' (110), ''mythical'' (115) and ''legendary'' (120). Double-click one to raise your Anatomy cap to that number: ''"You feel a surge of magic as the scroll enhances your Anatomy!"''

* Anatomy power scrolls come from '''champion bosses''': [[Bestiary/Barracoon|Barracoon]], [[Bestiary/Lord Oaks|Lord Oaks]], [[Bestiary/Mephitis|Mephitis]], [[Bestiary/Neira|Neira]], [[Bestiary/Rikktor|Rikktor]], [[Bestiary/Semidar|Semidar]] and [[Bestiary/Silvani|Silvani]]. Each champion boss leaves '''6 power scrolls''' in random fighting, magic, bard and animal skills, handed out among the players who helped kill it. Each scroll is a 110 (60%), 115 (35%) or 120 (5%).
* A scroll only works if it's higher than your current cap. Otherwise: ''"Your Anatomy is too high for this power scroll."''
* Champion power scrolls are '''cursed''': they always drop when you die, even from a blessed container. Use them or bank them quickly.
* Raising the cap doesn't raise your skill. You still have to train the extra points.

== Messages you'll see ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Message !! What it means
|-
| ''Whom shall I examine?'' || Pick a person or creature to examine.
|-
| ''That looks somewhat strong and very agile.'' || A successful examination (the words change with their stats, see above).
|-
| ''This being is at fifty percent endurance.'' || At 65 Anatomy you also see how much stamina they have left.
|-
| ''You cannot quite get a sense of their physical characteristics.'' || The examination failed.
|-
| ''You know yourself quite well enough already.'' || You can't examine yourself.
|-
| ''Only living things have anatomies!'' || You targeted an object.
|-
| ''That cannot be inspected.'' || Shopkeepers who can't be harmed can't be examined.
|}

== Tips ==
* '''Every warrior should have it.''' +30% damage and much better bandages make Anatomy one of the best value skills in the game.
* '''Check their stamina.''' At 65 Anatomy you can see when an opponent is running out of stamina, which means slower swings and a chance to finish them.
* '''Mages love it too.''' With [[Skills/Evaluating Intelligence|Evaluating Intelligence]] it gives an unarmed mage a strong defense without training Wrestling.

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