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Secret Knowledge is a skill which allows you to gain access to extra features: it allows you to use some of the game's most powerful elixirs and to collect special quest resources from superbeings, that are needed to increase your juggernauts reputation.
You can gain Secret Knowledge by finding important, historical documents which turn up from time-to-time among the piles of paper that are picked up from various hiding-places; here a list below:

Locations for Pile of Papers

-Stash Spots: Tower in Plateau of Silence; Ruins in Haunted Place and Ship's graveyard
Small % chance you will find it at these locations

Capture the Contraband Event
Small % chance you will find it when opening the chests from this event

-Dead Man on the Spiderweb in Kretch Lair or hole in Bog elf swamp
Medium % chance of finding here. Better odds than the Stash spots

-Event Graveyard Lights. Inspect the strange lights
Small % chance of finding one in the lights.
Note: Items not obtainable after Level 4

-Found from Wand
Small % chance of finding here.

-Found inside Gnome Caskets
Medium % chance of finding here.

-Catacombs.
100 % find rate

Once you get one of those pile of papers, you have to handle it to Pandrik or Flavviy the Wise, depending on your race, to read them. They will study the papers and, if there is any, tell you about the secret knowledge contained within them, geting +1 in secrt knowledge, wich allows you to get acces to buy new guidebooks in library in fai go.

Regards.

Secret knowledge is one of the most valuable "reputations" in the way that without it, you can not increase your juggernaut reputation, nor would you be able to charge your necromancer rings without it.

This reputation is gained by handing in papers to the wise man, in settlement of faytir for magmars, in lights edge for the humans.
after handing the paper to them, you wait 1 minute before you get the answer if you get a +1 on your secret knowledge.

some key points in this reputations are:
- 9 SK, cereberus guidebook, a great quicksilver income for people up to level 8, daily income
- 18 SK, uborg guidebook, which drops the very best qs item there is.
- 20 SK, dragon guidebook, drops dragon ashes which are needed to charge the necromancer rings for mages.
- 21 SK, this gives the option to create eldorill dust/yellow ink/collected gambier, needed to make dragon elixirs

and of course, even tho this is considered a reputation, it does not add to your reputation rating.

MB Guide to secret Knowledge
Secret knowledge is skill/reputation represented by number between 0-30. It is used to buy items in old Library and increased by handing in piles of paper to wise man of players race (Pandrik the Wise at human side of world or Flavviy the Wise at magmar side).

Pile of papers
Papers are only way to increase secret knowledge. After obtaining it, it is necessary to visit wise man and hand it to him. With a lot of luck, after about minute wise man tell story written on it (different for every level of SK – means for SK1 is different story then for SK2 and same goes up to SK 30. More common is, when wise mane tells u something about waffles and bad luck. That doesn’t mean any increase of secret knowledge.
Where to obtain papers:

• Wand
  
• Event chests – smugglers, tomb riders…
  
• Tower on plateau, well on hunted place or sunken ship under water
  
• Dead guy on spider web inside Kretch Lair in big spider location
  
• Gnome caskets
  
• Catacombs – there is 100% chances to get papers, once per week. It is accessible since player reach 500 mercy reputation. Then it is possible to buy a torch and visit Catacombs (on Mag side in chernag). There is best to use speed potion, flying dust, mount, runner shoes and other staff cause there are tough mobs who like to attack and injure players. And they are unable to beat these mobs until reaching blue undead medal and buy Scroll of Black Eclipse. Also good hint is visit catacombs before midnight, because after midnight is possible to get second paper. With good timing is easy to get 2 x papers in one run.
  

Use of secret knowledge
Secret knowledge limits what is possible to buy in Old Library at Fortress of Captivity.

• SK 3 - ncyclopaedia of Chaos Amulets
  
• SK 4 - Harcide Stinger Guidebook
  
• SK 6 - Gurraldiy Slime Guidebook, Fiery Heart Guidebook
  
• SK 7 - Encyclopaedia of Chaos Elixirs, Scorpion Bile Guidebook
  
• SK 8 - Shizka Mushroom Guidebook
  
• SK 9 - Guidebook of the Undead, Gargoyle Teeth Guidebook, Cerberus Tongue Guidebook, Dead Rum Guidebook
  
• SK 10 - Swamp Heart Guidebook
  
• SK 11 - Mercury Mirror Treatise
  
• SK 13 - Female Ashen Spider Guidebook
  
• SK 16 - Emperor Scorpions Guidebook
  
• SK 17 – Deathly Heart Guidebook
  
• SK 18 - Uborg's Wisdom Tooth Guidebook
  
• SK 20 - Bone Dragon Guidebook
  
• SK 21 - Treatise On Rare Minerals I, Treatise On Rare Fish I, Treatise On Rare Plants I
  

Not having enough SK for Superbeeings is not insoluble problem. If player like to hunt superbeeings without enough SK, it is possible to buy books from Gredeya the Witch or human side or Brugilda the Sorceress on mag side. Only little disadvantage is price which is doubled compared to Old Library.

Showing off with SK
Also it is possible to get achievements for Secret Knowledge. Achievement is received for 1, 5, 10, 20 and 30. Receiving 30 SK achievements is announced same way as red medal to all players.

SK is this thing called knowledge of all secrets, you get it by trying and searching in every dirty places, holes, stash and whatever hidden places in Faeo and find papers that you bring to the wiseguy. The wiseguy reveals you some secrets about the world and the life (some stories are very good, but Im not sure everyone read them, or just cick to see the +1).
Well, at one point the wiseguy stop to find anything interesting in the papers you bring him... and that point is when you get to 29 SK. Im at this knowledge more than 2 years, and I start to worry about this wiseguy, he is too old to read? need glasses or borred so much that he hurry to tell you that there is nothing interesting... So, that is SK

Secret Knowledge is Secret Knowledge ^_^

You can find Pile Of Papers in Plateu of Silence , Kretch Butchers Cave, Fay - Go Island, Ships Graveyard (underwater world), From Magic Wand, Gnome Casket, From events like Graveyard Lights and Capture The Contraband (from chests)

Pile Of Papers are need for Secret Knowledge, when you get one go to settlement of faytir (magmars) and speak with NPC wiseman, than wait ~ 1min and after that speak with him you will get 0 or 1 secret knowledge reputation

You need Secret Knowledge reputation for guidebooks, learning guidebooks gives you ability to get resourses, those resourses can be sold or traded for quicksilver in Vilage of Maetro (magmar) NPC brugilda witch, also you get +10 jugernaunt reputation per kill of one those bosses if you had studied the guidebook

To get GuideBook you need to go to village of maetro (magmar) speak with brugilda witch and there is option buy guidebooks, once you buy one go to wiseman in settlement of faytir (magmar) to learn it
Note: it's cheaper to buy guidebooks from fay - go but fay - go is only available for level 5+ players after they almost complete quest Ultimate Gambit

Secret Knowledge is a skill which allows you to gain access to extra features: it allows you to use some of the game's most powerful elixirs and to collect special quest resources from superbeings.
You can gain Secret Knowledge by finding important, historical documents which turn up from time-to-time among the piles of paper that are picked up from various hiding-places and ancient libraries such as:

Hiding place at plateau of silence
Hiding place in bog elf swamp
Hiding slace at ships graveyard
hiding place on fey-go
Library in the catacombs
Opening gnome rune caskets
Hiding place in spiders lair in underground passage

Its also possible to get papers from other places like:
Magic wand
Graveyard lights event
Capture the contraband event
Tomb raiders event
Magic of the stone event

Upon finding papers you can take them to the wise man and after a short wait he will tell you if he found anything interesting or not. If he does find something, your skill will raise by +1 (up to a max of 30)
So far its not too important to take this skill above 21 as there is not anything it actually unlocks as of yet.

When your skill reaches certain levels it will unlock certain things you can aquire from the old library at fey-go, they are:

SK 3 - ncyclopaedia of Chaos Amulets (allows you to understand chaos res amulets)
SK 4 - Harcide Stinger Guidebook (allows you to get stinger for QS)
SK 6 - Gurraldiy Slime Guidebook, Fiery Heart Guidebook (allows you to get fiery heart for QS)
SK 7 - Encyclopaedia of Chaos Elixirs, Scorpion Bile Guidebook (allows you to understand chaos elixirs and get scorpion bile with luck killing scorps)
SK 8 - Shizka Mushroom Guidebook (allows you to pick mushrooms in bog elf)
SK 9 - Guidebook of the Undead, Gargoyle Teeth Guidebook, Cerberus Tongue Guidebook, Dead Rum Guidebook (allows you to get tongues from cerberus event for QS, rum from killing captain for QS and teeth with luck killing gargoyles)
SK 10 - Swamp Heart Guidebook Allows you to get swamp heat from bog elf for QS)
SK 11 - Mercury Mirror Treatise (allows you to be able to use QS to make mirrors for warrior and archers summons)
SK 13 - Female Ashen Spider Guidebook (allows you to ge able to get spider egg for QS)
SK 16 - Emperor Scorpions Guidebook (allows you to get emporer scorp bile for QS)
SK 17 – Deathly Heart Guidebook (allows you to get deathly heart for QS)
SK 18 - Uborg's Wisdom Tooth Guidebook (allows you to get Uborg teeth for QS)
SK 20 - Bone Dragon Guidebook (allows you to get bone dragon ash for QS)
SK 21 - Treatise On Rare Minerals I, Treatise On Rare Fish I, Treatise On Rare Plants I (allows you to be able to pick rare resouces used for making strong DE III)

If when fighting a superbeing, your lvl is 2 or more higher than that of the mob you are fighting, you will still be able to gain the resouce, but it will be non transferable.
it is also possible to buy these books from the sorceress once you have completed the quest ultimate gambit which can be taken from lvl 5 if you have done all the previous main quests. However gaining the books this way will cost alot more.

Secret Knowledge is the study of Faeo's ancient Manuscripts and Texts. Reading such knowledge gives us better insight into the past workings of our world.

As such, we can also get better at harvesting the useable parts of the Juggernauts in our world, or read up on how to extract rare minerals and seeds and fish inks from rare materials.

Secret Knowledge has a limit of 30 as of now.
Our knowledge can increase if we take Pile Of Papers to our side's Wiseman found at Settlement of Faytir for Mag side.
Getting a +1 to the skill is random. But decreases in chance, the closer we get to 30.

Location where to get Pile of Papers:
1. All the stashes have a chance to drop it. (Plateau of Silence, Haunted Place, Kretch Instance etc)
2. Web in Kretch Instance in Patriarch's cave, has a higher % chance of dropping Pile of Papers.
3. Library in Catacombs gives one piece of Paper per day. We need to have a Torch (500 of any mercenary Rep needed), in order to access Catacombs. (Beware though, this area is chock full of high level monsters).
4. Reward from Gnome Wand. (Low chance)
5. Gnome Runes (Higher level runes have better chance of dropping with higher quantities as well)
6. Some Instances (Graveyard Lights, 2nd stage of Capture the Contraband, Tomb Raiders)

Secret Knowledge to the levels of 21, gets you access to some of the Books and Treatises which help us collect Superbeing Resources or Rare materials. WE can buy this at Old Library in the Island of Fay-Go (Fortress of Captivity), for which we need to have semi Completed Long Awaited Assistance in order to have access to the islands. (Level 5 quest)

(On side note, if anyone is interested in reading the Secret Knowledge texts, please give me a pm in game )

Everyone above has it all wrong!!

Secret knowledge is, no big surprise here, SECRET!!

So, I would love to tell you all about it, but then I would have to kill you so the knowledge doesn't get out