How to combine two skill cards?

[Lasko]

I understand there are attuned desks or something, but does anyone know the locations yet?

[Xgpmcnp]

The attuned workbenches are scattered a bit everywhere, and all have hteir own "requirements", as in they can only slot specific aspects. You might want to upgrade with Hushery, find a Hushery desk, to realize it doesn't take your Heart cards. (as an example)

Horomachristry Rose/Sky is the earliest you encounter, Illumination Edge/Heart/Scale/Winter has a pretty early one too. A comprehensive list is probably a couple of days/weeks away considering most of the players are still taking notes on their side and have far from completed the game.

To answer the question, you don't fuse skills, you fuse elements of the souls. Your skills are attuned to an element of the soul, usually the one it gave you when you put it in the tree of wisdom. You then need to find a proper workbench, put two matching element of the soul cards and an attuned skill in, and it'll work itself out.

[Bravo]

To see which 'desks' are attuned and to which souls, observe the 'challenges' on the desk. Most desks will list '5' '10' '15' as the only options, but a few will list the various branches of the knowledge web... these are the ones that you can bolster attuned souls at. Beware, some 'desks' I have encountered so far limit the souls you can put in, so it is possible to find a desk with the appropriate 'attunement - knowledge type' but be unable to attune because the soul type won't fit.

[Ryusui]

Yeah, it's tricky. What helps is that you will likely attune multiple aspects to multiple branches via the skills you put on the Tree of Wisdoms, so you can have multiple opportunities to upgrade your skills. Right now I'm sitting at an upgraded Phost and two upgraded Wist.

[LtFeonir]

I'm familiar with the mechanics of this, and frankly I think you're casually locked out of many elements VERY early. Bound the wrong souls to skills in your tree? PERMANENTLY lower tier skills. Unless I'm missing something. I feel like I'm in the mid game and have about half the library unlocked. I'm making progress and still discovering, but I feel completely locked out of this mechanic of the game; my fear is that in the late game I will not be able to reach higher potency combinations because my single inputs are too weak.

Has anyone made it further who can confirm or deny this?

For reference, my idea of the "mid-game" is striking aspects low on 8s and high on 14s given circumstantial events and memories.

[Frog Father]

I think it's less about trying to pre-empt and more about learning as you go. Of you have one skill that is committed but it doesn't match that aspect of the upgrade station, try to get that aspect in the next (level two) skill you put in the Tree