If you had the Skill or the Wit, would you use it?

[maulkin]

I don't think completely suppressing knowledge of the Skill could ever be right. I just see it as wrong, people should have the right to develop their powers as they're an intrinsic part of them.

Even when the Skill gives potential enemies abilities to spy on you, influence your mind and invade your dreams? Not a comfortable prospect for someone with as much responsibility and as many enemies as a king.

A further question along these lines is who should be allowed to teach the Skill? The Six Duchies kings seem to have always restricted the licence to teach the Skill to a single, loyal Skillmaster. While this policy might have been effective in preventing the proliferation of the Skill, it contributed to the near-extinction of the Skill when Solicity died without training a successor and almost led to disaster when Galen turned all of his trained Skill students against the rightful king.