When you click on the question mark under a character’s portrait, you bring up the Character Info screen, one of the most useful features of Nethergate. You can find out just about everything about your characters and do training as well.
 
The Character Info Screen
These are the areas of the Character Info screen:
Skills List - Your character’s skills are listed at the left half of the screen. Click on the name of a skill to see a description to the upper right. The first column tells you the base level of the skill. The second column says how many levels you’ve bought. The third column tells you how many skill points it will cost for the next level of the skill. Finally, the fourth column tells the total amount of the skill.
When you’re in the training hall in Shadow Valley Fort (for Romans) or Nethergate (for Celts), when you click on a skill name, up and down arrows will appear to the right. Use these buttons to buy more levels of the skill. The number of skill points you currently have are at the bottom.
Some skills will be listed as ‘???’. This signifies skills you can’t train in. You need to be taught these skills specially in certain hidden areas in the towns and dungeons of Shadowvale.
Description Area - Whenever you want to know what anything is, select it, and a description of it will appear in this area.
Other Stuff - All of the other things about your character are described in this area. Click on any of the options at the bottom (Other Skills, Potions, etc.) and you will see what you have. The topics are:
Other Skills: Lists the 8 secondary skills (such as Health and Potion Making) and their values.
Character Traits: This character’s advantages and disadvantages.
Special Items: The special items you’ve found during your adventures, such as keys and rare artifacts. When you are in a place where one of these items is relevant, you will use it automatically.
Potions: The potion recipes you have found. Recipes you know are in dark letters.
Spell Circles: The six classes of spells. Spells you know are in dark letters. You can’t learn what Nether Circle spells do until you find them.
When you’re through with the Character Info screen, select Done.
