Taste Identification

Taste Identification detects poison on food. On this shard that is its entire function, and since poisoned food is almost never encountered, this is fairly labeled a dead skill — documented here for completeness.

What It Does

Use the skill and target something edible within 2 tiles:

• Food: on a successful check you learn whether it has "poison smeared on it" or is clean. This is the one real (if rare) use — a poisoner can taint food and hand it to you.
• Potions and potion kegs: the skill just tells you what you already know — all potions on this shard are self-evident from their label and color. No identification needed, ever.
• Anything else: "That's not something you can taste."

There is no crafting bonus, no alchemy tie-in, and no other hidden benefit.

Skill Cap and Training

Taste Identification caps at 100.0 (no skill scroll). If you insist: buy a pile of cheap food and taste it repeatedly. But unless you expect a Poisoning specialist to be seasoning your dinner, spend the skill points on literally anything else.