That's certainly my understanding -- somewhere, there is the average Jane/Joe who is "the measure of all things." Besides being human, there's not much to say about them; they have the default in every ability and trait.
So Heortlings warriors are Brave 17 in relation to this abstract person, not in relation to other Heortling warriors. When I was about 10, I read a fairy tale concerning seven princes, each "taller than the next." My question to my mom was -- "did you have to line them up that way, or did it just happen, and, if the latter, what happened if they stood in a circle?" My mom, as I recalled, suggested the former was the safer assumption, as it is here.
If a task is automatic for a Bison Rider, it should be similarly automatic for anyone with a sufficiently high Ride (Beast) ability, although the Narrator might rule that people from a background that did not emphasize doing tricks on beast back get a minus to their ability from lack of practice.
Peter Larsen
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