Scars of War - Knowledge and Skill

Gareth Fouche writes about aspects of the skill system in Scars of War:

Basically, in SoW, there are two types of skills, Active and Knowledge. Active skills are a measure of how well you can perform some activity, whereas Knowledge skills measure how much you know on a certain topic. An example of an Active skill is Stealth whereas an example of a Knowledge skill is Ancient History(Talurian Empire). Now, in real life everything you do contains elements of knowledge and skill but, for simplicities sake, I divide skills into these two sets. For example, Herbalism is a Knowledge skill, because it is primarily about knowing what herbs are what, even though there might be elements of skill to how you mix the herbs. Likewise, Healing (non-magical doctoring) is a Knowledge skill; I’m sure that practicing your bandaging technique is useful but most of the benefit is gained by knowing the human body and it’s ailments.