Morrowind:Skills

There are 27 skills in Morrowind, each of which determines how well you can perform various tasks. Each skill is governed by an Attribute; there are three to five skills governed by each attribute (except Luck). The relationship between governing attributes and skills is discussed on the attributes page. Each skill also belongs to one of three specializations. The numbers in parentheses are what the game uses to identify the skill.

Attribute	Skills Governed by Attribute
Endurance	Heavy Armor (3)	Medium Armor (2)	Spear (7)
Strength	Acrobatics (20)	Armorer (1)	Axe (6)	Blunt Weapon (4)	Long Blade (5)
Agility	Block (0)	Light Armor (21)	Marksman (23)	Sneak (19)
Speed	Athletics (8)	Hand-to-hand (26)	Short Blade (22)	Unarmored (17)
Personality	Illusion (12)	Mercantile (24)	Speechcraft (25)
Intelligence	Alchemy (16)	Conjuration (13)	Enchant (9)	Security (18)
Willpower	Alteration (11)	Destruction (10)	Mysticism (14)	Restoration (15)
Luck	(none)

Specialization
Combat
Stealth
Magic

Notes

• Skills from Daggerfall that have been removed include:
  • All creature language skills
  • Backstabbing: Replaced with a flat sneak attack damage bonus
  • Climbing: Characters can no longer climb
  • Critical Strike: No longer occur randomly in battle, although sneak attacks grant damage multipliers
  • Dodging: Superseded by Unarmored
  • Etiquette and Streetwise: Merged into Speechcraft
  • Medical: Diseases are now automatically diagnosed
  • Pickpocket: Subsumed by Sneak
  • Running and Swimming: Merged into Athletics
  • Thaumaturgy: Spells shifted to other schools