Awakening Skills

After you gain access to the Abyss at lv90, you will get a quest (when you click on the Awakening tab, it tells you the quest is called Zodiak Legend)  that eventually asks you to choose the light side or the dark side.
 
 
This is in preparation for your awakening skills!

You can only have one side at a time. Each side enhances you in a different way.

Read the Queen's descriptions carefully before choosing.
 

Once you choose, you have to build up light (kindness) or dark (evil/cruelty) pts in order to activate your awakening skills. You can find your total in your R menu.

There are two ways that you can get these pts. The Dark Contract npc has a daily quest that gives you 100 kindness or cruelty depending on which quest of his you take. This quest also gives you 1 ded/fealty.

The other way is through completing expert challenge - 1100 kindness or cruelty depending on which awakening you chose. O.O that's a lot of pts - and you'll need them. The skills start at 5000 pts and go up 500 pts for each level.

Some of the skills are manually activated.

This one in particular is very nice - who couldn't use more healing options? I'm an elemental warrior, and I can finally heal myself! - limited, but still.


And some are passive.

Read the skills carefully before choosing them! Some are not so great, costing you valuable pts and soul gold for skills that don't help you. And some, like this Divine Uphold, can actually be detrimental to your build! This is a passive skill that reduces the very thing you want Divine Uphold for if you are going for hit power! And being passive, that means that you cannot turn it off! O.O

If you do make a mistake in choosing your path or choosing your skills, you can switch and reset. But it will cost you.

Oh, and don't forget the soul gold, These skills cost 10sd42c for every level! When you reset, you may get your pts back, but it says nothing about getting that soul gold back as well - ouch! Best to choose right the first time!