It was a sweet job, as long as you didn't mind killing... and Haytham didn't.

"Most of the skills have to do with stealth or with disabling the enemy in some manner. They do seem to have magical attributes to them as well. The lock-picking skill I was taught did at least."

To say he was taught lock-picking was a bit incorrect. He knew how to pick locks before he arrived. For him it had been more enhancing his own abilities and discovering the magic that would make lock picking even easier.