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<blockquote data-quote="JDowling" data-source="post: 1183296" data-attributes="member: 12596">possible interesting uses for Knowledge (history) and Knowledge (nobility and royalty)...Knowledge (nobility and royalty)Blackmail: with a high enough check you are able to unearth some secret that a specific ruler or royal family has tried to cover up.&nbsp; The discovery of this secret by the general populice would be scandalous at best and lead to civil war at worst.&nbsp; Of course, royalty is probably unlikely to react kindly to being blackmailed so hijinx ensues&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Knowledge (history)&quot;History is written by winners&quot;: With enough knowledge of history you can create a plausable &quot;what if&quot; scenario and then &quot;discover&quot; (make up) plausable evidence that has been lost thus far that points to the fact that your &quot;what if&quot; was really what happened, and not the generally accepted history.&nbsp; This followed with successful diplomacy and/or bluff checks could lead to an official rewriting of historical events.Those were two ideas that came to mind, but I'm not sure if that was anything like what you are looking for, and they certainly aren't honest <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.&nbsp; But perhaps a little revision of history and blackmail is necessary to help foil the evil overlord of the kingdom next door?&nbsp;&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="JDowling, post: 1183296, member: 12596"] possible interesting uses for Knowledge (history) and Knowledge (nobility and royalty)... Knowledge (nobility and royalty) Blackmail: with a high enough check you are able to unearth some secret that a specific ruler or royal family has tried to cover up. The discovery of this secret by the general populice would be scandalous at best and lead to civil war at worst. Of course, royalty is probably unlikely to react kindly to being blackmailed so hijinx ensues :D Knowledge (history) "History is written by winners": With enough knowledge of history you can create a plausable "what if" scenario and then "discover" (make up) plausable evidence that has been lost thus far that points to the fact that your "what if" was really what happened, and not the generally accepted history. This followed with successful diplomacy and/or bluff checks could lead to an official rewriting of historical events. Those were two ideas that came to mind, but I'm not sure if that was anything like what you are looking for, and they certainly aren't honest :). But perhaps a little revision of history and blackmail is necessary to help foil the evil overlord of the kingdom next door? :D [/QUOTE]

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