Really confused about learning skills

[Dacen]

Hi, got my first party wipe (on the vicar in the canal fortress), new team members have no skills (other than the basic weapons ones) and my new main that is a mage got no magic. I go to the training hall, new formation, but impossible to learn any skills.
After wandering around for like 30min trying to figure out what to do, i think that maybe i need to unlock them by fighting once, i go and do one battle, see i got only basic skills, do absolutely 0 damages, and manage to get a second party wipe on the FIRST battle i fight. Something is definitely wrong.

How can i learn skills, what am i missing there ?

[unskilled-]

All the skills you learn in one generation can be learned at the training hall in the next generation.

Advisable to stick with your original troops for the first generation since they already have the skills needed and will pass them down after the time skip.

After you take the Canal Fort the "real" game begins. Think of Leon/Gerard as a tutorial of sorts.

[Dacen]

Thanks for the answer, but the thing is, i can't learn skills. The right soldier just use his pick up line he has since the beginning of the game, and i can't interact with him. I can only interact with the one learning formations.
I wonder if i die too soon to have unlocked it, but if it is that, then i'm forced to farm to regain abilities, and again and again until i pass the boss...

[Remoria]

Yup you died during the tutorial basically and now your in a rough spot you might want to restart instead of grinding your way out of this run. You can grind out but you probably need to drop the difficulty down and retry instead.

[Sigs]

The canal is one of the first things you can do outside the tutorial. The tutorial ends after you kill kzissinie 1. The dojo and other improvements are unlocked by sitting on your throne after the first 1 year faux timeskip.

Have you tried sitting on your throne? You ought to be able to teleport directly in front of it, and it will sometimes have a big quest bubble over it.

[機関車D51]

Additional hint...
At the information page of skills,
click v ( @steam ) and select a skill .
if there is a red check , the character can't spark it ...

[Dacen]

so i tried sitting on the throne, did nothing. As sleeping, having again a wipe, etc. Finally i loaded a save with gerard before the team wipe, and beat the vicar with a few tries (and reload). I confirm the skill trainer unlock after that. So it seems there is a window between kzissinie and the vicar where you can softlock yourself hard, as remoria said

[spoonygundam]

Originally posted by Dacen:

Thanks for the answer, but the thing is, i can't learn skills. The right soldier just use his pick up line he has since the beginning of the game, and i can't interact with him. I can only interact with the one learning formations.
I wonder if i die too soon to have unlocked it, but if it is that, then i'm forced to farm to regain abilities, and again and again until i pass the boss...

Yeah, you don't register the skills you've learned until there's a timeskip. All the skills you glimmered on your dead characters will still be registered upon a timeskip, so you can either glimmer some/all of them again (Shouldn't really take very long for a bunch of early skills) or focus on entirely different weapons/spells with your new guys and glimmer some brand new stuff.

There are also other places you can go if you're worried about the Canal Fortress boss. You can head to Nibel instead and do the quests that pop up as you head further south. You can turn around for the Canal Fortress whenever you feel like your new party is strong enough to deal with the boss, or you can keep exploring and you'll hit a timeskip sooner or later that'll register all your skills permanently.