Wisdom is divided into the subabilities of Intuition — which determines the character's awareness of his surroundings, grasp of a situation, and understanding of other people, and Understanding — which measures the character's insight into the nature of the universe, his ability to apply his learning in everyday situations and to make judgements based on deduction and evidence available. Leon decides his character has little Understanding. The character's statistics now read:

Intuition

A character with a high Intuition score likely would be very perceptive and good at making educated guesses, and would be difficult to fool or lie to effectively. Intuition is like a sixth sense -- the ability to grasp a concept or idea even if little information is available.

Detect Scrying and Divination: A character with a Wisdom of 15 or higher has a chance to intuitively sense when another creature or person is attempting to spy on him or uncover information about him through the use of divinatory magic, psionics or items that duplicate these effects as detailed on Table 1.09. A character with a chance to detect scrying or divination does not have the ability to determine who or what is attempting to divine information about him, only that the divination is occurring.

Detect Magic: A character with the thief ability to Detect Magic uses this number to modify his thief ability.

Automatic Scrying and Divination Detection: Characters with a Wisdom of 19 or higher can automatically detect some magical and psionic scrying and divination attempts (no roll necessary) as listed on Table 1.09.
Psionic devotions and sciences which have are equivalent to magical effects are detected as if they were a spell of the same level. For example, psionic clairvoyance is considered a third-level divination. A creature with an Intuition of 24 automatically detects all attempts to scry or divine through a psionic devotion, even if it does not duplicate a magical effect. A character with an Intuition of 25 automatically detects all divinatory psionic sciences.

Magical items which can be used to perform divinations or scrying are considered to operate at a spell level equal to the most powerful divination effect the item is capable of producing. For example, a detect evil spell cast through the power of a special crystal ball would be considered a third-level effect since the crystal ball can also be used to scry clairvoyantly, a third-level effect.

Skills: Intuition is relevant ability for such diverse skills as Artistic Ability, Healing, Direction Sense, Weather Sense, Mining, and Hunting.

Table 1.09: Intuition

Intuition Score	Detect Scrying	Detect Magic	Automatic Scry. Detection
1-14	0%	0%	—
15	5%	0%	—
16	10%	0%	—
17	15%	+5%	—
18	20%	+10%	—
19	25%	+15%	1st-lvl divinations
20	30%	+20%	2nd-lv divinations
21	35%	+25%	3rd-lvl divinations
22	40%	+30%	4th-lvl divinations
23	50%	+35%	5th-lvl divinations
24	60%	+40%	6th-lvl divinations, all divinatory psionic devotions
25	70%	+50%	7th-lvl divinations, all divinatory psionic sciences

Understanding

This score gauges a character's ability to grasp inner meanings and cosmic truths, especially with regard to philosophy and religion. A character with a high understanding has a greater grasp of the meaning of the world around him and the teachings of his deities. Priests with high understanding are better able to grasp the concepts needed to successfully cast priestly magic.

Bonus Spells: This is the number of additional spell points that a priest characters receives, according to his Understanding score and level.

% Spell Failure: This is the percentage chance a priest's spell will fail when cast. Those priests with low Understanding scores run the risk of having spells misfire.

Skills: Understanding is the relevant ability score for skills such as Omen Reading and Religion.

Table 1.10: Understanding

Ability Score	Bonus Spell Points Max. Spell Level Useable							% Spell Failure
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	80%
2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	60%
3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	50%
4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	45%
5	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	40%
6	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	35%
7	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	30%
8	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	25%
9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	20%
10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15%
11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10%
12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5%
13	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	0%
14	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	0%
15	8	15	15	15	15	15	15	0%
16	8	20	20	20	20	20	20	0%
17	8	20	30	30	30	30	30	0%
18	8	20	30	45	45	45	45	0%
19	12	25	45	60	60	60	60	0%
20	12	30	50	75	75	75	75	0%
21	12	30	60	85	100	100	100	0%
22	12	30	60	100	135	135	135	0%
23	12	30	60	100	180	180	180	0%
24	12	30	60	100	180	240	240	0%
25	12	30	60	100	180	270	310	0%