The Wand Lore skill can raise your ability to craft wands. Without it, or another skill chosen at the beginning of the game, or items that raise your Wandcrafting level, you will not be able to craft wands above level 0 (effectively none).
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The knowledge of properly polishing a wand may extend its working life and enhance the abilities of the wand beyond the expected. Skills in this group enhance the use of wands of all shapes and sizes, and expand crafting options.
Level
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Bonuses
Effect
1
Rod Charge You've stopped sticking the wand in your ear. This is good, you were starting to run out of ears.
+1 +1
2
Baton Polisher Proper wand polishing is essential for every magician. Just don't do it too much or you'll go blind.
+1 +2 +1
3
Rhabdomantic Hacker This swishing and flicking is no way for a man to spend his evenings.
+1 +2 +1
4
Adept Wandtwirler Just remember, it's not the size of your wand, it's who you shoot it at.
+1 +1 +3 +1
5
The Power Of The Rod Your wands practiclly vibrate with magical energies - at least, until they run down.
+2 +1 +3 +1
6
Aetherweaver You can twist together famine with plenty, pride with shame, and any other number of abstract analogies into rods built on the pure strain of contradiction.