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Persuasion
Use	Talk your way into and out of situations Persuade people to give you items
Trainers	Magessa Ohr Ellova Templar Montainel Caradas Hyne
Skill Books	Skill Book (Persuasion)

Persuasion is a Skill in Kingdoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning. Skills in KoA: Re-Reckoning are non-combat talents that allow you to improve your capability to craft, to discover different ways to play and interact with the environment, and to make it easier to go through some situations, which can aid you in your playthrough. Persuasion allows the character to talk your way into and out of situations that would normally require a different solution. Persuasion can also be used to persuade people, when prompted, to give you items.

Persuasion Description:

• Allows you to talk your way into and out of situations that would normally require a different solution
• Can be used to persuade people, when prompted, to give you items
• There are a limited number of Persuasion attempts offered in the KoA: Re-Reckoning
• Some Persuasion attempts are presented only after certain decisions are made within the quest prior to the discussion
• The A Wink and a Smile achievement, requires 50 successful persuasion attempts.

How to Acquire Persuasion:

Mastering Persuasion requires a total of 10 Skill Points. You can acquire and improve Persuasion by different ways:

• Race Bonuses: There are two races which give bonuses just by choosing them in Character Creation:
  
  • Almain race has a +1 Persuasion bonuses
  • Dokkalfar race has a +1 Persuasion bonus
• Leveling Up:
  • By level 40, you'll have earned 40 skill points from leveling.

• Skill Books:
  • Are special books found in Amalur or given as rewards for quests that allow you to increase a specific skill.
  • Are named as "Skill Book (Skill Name)"
  • Once you have the Skill Book (Persuasion), open your inventory and read it to receive a permanent +1 increase to Persuasion
  • Skill Books points cannot be reset by Fateweavers
  • Although you can find more than one Skill Book (Persuasion), you can benefit from at most one skill book
• Persuasion Trainers:
  • Trainers are NPCs who can increase one skill you have by a factor of 1.
  • Any upgrade cost an amount of gold
  • Any Trainer can only be used once
  • These are two basic, one advanced and one master trainers
  • You can find four trainers for Persuasion scattered throughout The Faelands

Each of these trainers has a range of level requirements in which a character's skill level has to fall, in order to be eligible for training. If you are too skilled (or not skilled enough), you cannot learn from Trainers