Defense

Defense is a general combat skill that determines your ability to entirely mitigate or avoid damage in a fight by dodging or avoiding blows. Defense directly opposes offense rolls against you, and also frequently plays a role in mitigating special techniques from specific weapons and natural attacks from wildlife. Alongside your agility, it determines how much damage you receive from autoattacks: agility controls where on your body you are likely to be hit, while defense endeavors to make those hits less severe.

Defense can be impacted in a number of ways, primarily by hostile special attacks, certain toxins, what position your character is currently in, and if you've triggered any special move through the shield use skill.

Defense has a chance of training whenever you are attacked, so long as the attacker has sufficient lethality to be a challenge for you.

Defense is governed by agility (main) and wisdom (secondary).

Defense is a natural skill, meaning all characters receive it for free during creation.