About Henry

[soulfull]

Although living in bad times, a blacksmith, who is handy with a sword, decides to not teach his son???

Although Henry is a son of a blacksmith, he is a weak person, who needs a lot of sleep.

[Valden21]

Henry is learning, but he's still in the first stage of his apprenticeship. Back then, apprentices reached the next stage of their apprenticeship based on demonstrated skill, not age. The first stage was basically a go-fer, and that's what you're doing in the prologue. You "go fer" beer, you "go fer" coal, you "go fer" the money that Kunesh owes your father, and you "go fer" the nails that Theresa needs. Henry hasn't shown that he has the skills for the next stage of apprenticing. He's got SOME knowledge of it, but not enough.

[EricHVela]

If you have Henry talk to the Blacksmith, the Blacksmith explains his views on combat and Henry's social development. If you keep playing the game, you get insight on the real reason the Blacksmith wanted to keep Henry out of combat.

[Insomec]

Originally posted by soulfull:

Although living in bad times, a blacksmith, who is handy with a sword, decides to not teach his son???

Although Henry is a son of a blacksmith, he is a weak person, who needs a lot of sleep.

Henry is only 15-16, his “father” is also very anti war having seen it himself and believes Henry would benefit more from a trade (blacksmithing) but it’s bold to assume he’d have a lot of training by this point in his life other than helping out around the forge.

[DargonBlak]

the way i view it, Henry had enough previous education to figure out a lot on his own

For example, Henry must have received a sufficient education in general Blacksmithing, as well as enough armor and sword smithing, to magically be able to become well skilled just by doing weapon, armor, clothing, and shoe repair

Henry doesn't become an "expert" Tailor or Smith, since there are things he still can't repair

but i think the "0-20" is more of a relative thing to Henry's starting and max skill level, instead of 0 meaning nothing and 20 meaning everything, even though 20 clearly means "best" in many cases

the 0-20 ability and skill levels are definitely scaled to fit Henry into a specific pocket of skill level and development, and it starts out more difficult than a typical rpg

[Driss]

He's only weak until you level up his strength

[Galdred]

Stop defending his father:
Henry is also pretty bad at blacksmithing, starting with a maintenance skill of 0 (or 1?).

[Bandy]

Originally posted by Galdred:

Stop defending his father:
Henry is also pretty bad at blacksmithing, starting with a maintenance skill of 0 (or 1?).

Damn, got a point there, LOL. Henry, waste of skin...

[Givizub]

The dad just wanted to protect the son to fell in with a bad company.

[Valden21]

There's a reason why Martin never really taught Henry how to be a blacksmith. Play the game; you'll learn the reason.