LO replaces every vanilla lord's skill tree with brand new ones built from scratch. These skill trees are designed to offer the player RPG-style choices along the way.

There are 3 types of skills in LO (excluding quests and the immortality skill):

1) Connector Skills
2) Decision Skills
3) Faction Skills

Connector skills, as the name suggests, connect up the decision skills. They are mostly shared between lords of the same faction, except for the personal line, where they can be unique skills as well as mount choices.

Decision skills offer 3-5 choices for each grouping. Once a skill is picked, the others will be locked out. Often these decisons can be difficult, so pre-planning your picks can often be helpful in creating synergy for the lord in question.

Faction skills are unique to each faction, and can be located along the top of the skill tree. Like decision skills, choosing one will lock out the other choices. These skills can be unlocked at rank 22 and are very powerful, so choose wisely.

Legendary lords will have a large number of unique skills along the yellow line, putting their power level above that of regular lords.

The red line will be the same for each lord within a faction, offering choices on how to improve your forces (see 'veterancy matters' for more information on these).

The ble line will usually be the same for each lord within a faction, with the connector skills being faction-unique skills that help either in battle or on the campaign map.