Meditating is one of the skills in Wurm Online and can add extra abilities and benefits for your character.
There are 5 different paths to choose from, below we'll have a quick overview of each of them, along with their questions and answers
To learn more about the skill please check out their wiki page here.
Path of Knowledge
The path of knowledge gives you more information about your surroundings, other players/creatures and protects and increases your skills.
The most notable skills here for me is at level 9 - No Skill loss, which protects your skills (except fighting skill) from skill loss on death; and at level 11 - Intellect of the Enlightened which gives a permanent 25% skillgain for all skill except Fighting and Faith.
Question 1 - What is knowledge?
Answer - Information that I have accepted as fact
Question 2 - What best constitutes a fact?
Answer - Anything I accept as the truth.
Question 3 - Is there any absolute truth?
Answer - Only what I decide to see within me
Question 4 - How do I best prepare myself to learn things?
Answer - I initially accept everything as fact and try to constantly verify it
Question 5 - What is the most important product of knowledge?
Answer - Fearlessness
Question 6 - What constitutes a professional?
Answer - Someone who is paid
Question 7 - Which of these is the most certain way to rise above the crowd?
Answer - To really learn the details
Question 8 - What do I do when I have too little knowledge to make the best choice?
Answer - Usually you could toss a coin
Question 9 - How important is knowledge of history?
Answer - It can help
Question 10 - What is required to make good decisions?
Answer - Fairly logical thinking
Question 11 - What will make my knowledge useless?
Answer - Inactivity
Question 12 - Which of these is a requirement for truly working knowledge?
Answer - That there is no randomness in the world
Question 13 - What knowledge is most valuable?
Answer - To see what it is that you actually do to the world and the people around you
Path of Power
This path gives you power and immunity over elements. Elemental Immunity (level 9) makes you immune to elemental damage which includes lava but to me the most useful skill is gained at level 7 - Erupt/Freeze - this allows you to turn rock/cliff tiles into lava and lava tiles into rock. Turning a rock tile into lava also turns the same cave tile to lava (the tile underground), and it includes ore tiles. So if you're in no mood to mine out yet another zinc vein, erupt the tile on the surface, wait for the 18 hour cool down, Freeze it - and quickly mine out your now regular rock tile in the cave. How lovely is that?
Question 1 - What is the ultimate purpose of power?
Answer - To achieve personal freedom
Question 2 - What is money?
Answer - Money is mainly energy
Question 3 - In large amounts, what of these things is the most certain route to power for an unknown person?
Answer - Money
Question 4 - What is the main reason that people strive for power and money?
Answer - To gain control over their lives
Question 5 - What is the safest way of getting rid of your enemy?
Answer - Conquer them
Question 6 - If power is a sword, what do I need to swing it?
Answer - Courage
Question 7 - What is the biggest risk of my gaining power?
Answer - That I become a coward
Question 8 - How do I best control other people while releasing their energy?
Answer - Give them limited power
Question 9 - Will I loose my power if I am dishonest?
Answer - Usually not
Question 10 - Why am I in power?
Answer - I am better
Path of Insanity
This path is a very interesting one with very unique consequences for joining - hallucinations! The higher your level become the more likely it is you'll see creatures from time to time that isn't really there. The bonus at level 7 - Shield of the Gone, gives you a constant damage reduction that increases as your meditation level goes up. This has always made it a popular choice for characters that play PvP. At level 9 you get the Teleport ability that transports you to a complete random spot on the map. All in all a very interesting path to choose if you ask me!
Question 1 - How come some people are rich and some are poor?
Answer - Life is unfair
Question 2 - Who has the most control of my fate?
Answer - The stars
Question 3 - If I win the lottery, what determined it?
Answer - Simple luck
Question 4 - A horse slips and kills the rider. What happened?
Answer - Chance struck
Question 5 - Who of these are usually hiding something?
Answer - A silent person
Question 6 - Do you have free will?
Answer - Yes
Question 7 - Must I treat others as I want to be treated myself?
Answer - Always
Question 8 - These roads, mines and house are...
Answer - Basically unnatural
Question 9 - Who usually has most incentive to attack a normal person like me?
Answer - The government
Question 10 - What best describes humankind?
Answer - Evil
Question 11 - What best describes my life?
Answer - Totally meaningless
Question 12 - Who committed the crime?
Answer - The rich guy
Question 13 - He worries about someone therefore the person...
Answer - Cares about
Path of Love
A very popular path for anybody that keeps a lot of grazing animals. At level 7 you are granted the Enchant ability that lets you transform regular grass into enchanted grass. Enchanted grass is far less likely to get grazed down or trampled into packed earth so it's great for your animal pens.
Question 1 - What is love?
Answer - It is a spring
Question 2 - Without which can love not survive?
Answer - Respect
Question 3 - Which of these negates love?
Answer - Contempt
Question 4 - How do I love someone more?
Answer - I accept
Question 5 - What makes love grow most?
Answer - Time
Question 6 - What should I say to best strengthen existing love?
Answer - I love you
Question 7 - What is the best reason to ask someone I love to change?
Answer - To preserve balance
Question 8 - What do I need to do to love everyone?
Answer - Love humankind
Question 9 - Which of these is the biggest failure in love?
Answer - Not protecting your love
Question 10 - What of these will ultimately make love fail?
Answer - Lack of patience
Question 11 - What is the biggest act of love?
Answer - Setting free
Path of Hate
Path of Hate tiles can only occur on mycelium tiles, and thus are only on the PvP servers like Chaos. The bonusses it gives seem to also relate to fighting and PvP - increased damage and Spell Immunity at level 11.
Question 1 - What is hate?
Answer - A need
Question 2 - What is the best thing that comes from hate?
Answer - Energy
Question 3 - What is the worst thing that hate can bring?
Answer - It can kill me
Question 4 - What type of hate is the weakest?
Answer - Hate based on fear
What's your favourite meditation path in Wurm Online? Or if you have any of the missing questions/answers - comment below!