Name: Herdmaster
Description: Your rapport with animals has developed to the point where animals will begin to obey your commands willingly. Find it impossible to find Mme Butterfly amidst all the others energetically flitting around? No more! With a blow of a [[Tin Whistle]], all animals near you will stop in their tracks until they hear it again or their muscles give out one minute later.
Required: Animal Herdkeeping, Animal Kinship V
Note: Tin Whistle would be a new item from the Animal Vendor and Toy Vendor.
Summary: Makes it much easier to manually take care of your animals by keeping them from moving around as you progress down the line petting/massing and nibbling/milking them.
Other notes: Inspired by the difficulty in managing large animal populations. Thematically, this would be the alternative to Remote Herdkeeping for farmers who stay at home rather than travelling. Preferably, this would share the AKVII/Emblem prerequisite that RHK does, but I don't think any other skills have the exact same prereqs that this would involve. There was a bit of consideration as to the range of this skill: All animals on the street? Only at home? Limited range? and the duration: Until blown again? Limited time? User leaves the street?
Concept developed in conjunction with Krushak.