Talk:New World/@comment-27011036-20161026061853

Found a intresting nitpik in Vol.11 Ch.2 Part2: On his way out of the tunnel, Gondo is explaining to Ainz that he has no talent as runesmith.

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''“I’m no good as a runesmith. I’m just a useless descendant that my great father left behind.”''

''I see, Ainz mused. So his problem was simply a lack of talent.''

After considering the knowledge from this world and that of YGGDRASIL, he was quite sure that this was the case.

''One needed ten other levels in certain job classes before being able to take levels in the runesmith career. However, if his overall level cap was 11, then he would not be able to gain further levels as a runesmith. And if he had only one level of runesmith, he would only be able to learn skills of no great import.''

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Wouldn't this imply that having great talent (and I don't mean the innate talent here) is like having a higher level cap? It is mentioned many times that Climb has not talent. That would imply that he has a low level cap. And "talented people" (like f.e. Gazef) are just people who have a higher level cap?

I'm not sure about this part, but it seems like this holds only true for Job Levels. To these talented people comes the additional Race Level. So a talented Lizardman is superior to a equally talented Human, as Humans don't seem to have Race Levels. Brain lamented over this to, that humans are inferior to other races (once on the encounter with Shalltear and another time to Gazef if I remember correctly). Now we just have to find out it Innate Talent (the inborn power surpassing normal humans) is human-only or if other races have Innate Talents too. If only humans have Innate Talent, that would be like a race-specific trait for their lack of Race Levels (Enri's and Nfirea's Character Sheet don't display any Race Levels).

TL;DR: People with great talent have a high level cap (for Job Levels), people with no talent have a low level cap.