Vulpus also got adventure xp from native wildlife, plus he can use vis/confidence to reduce the might malus. It should be pretty easy for him to put 5 points into Ancient Maltese, for example.
Thanks. I didn't know that. Can I add the 8 and the 5 xp to treat it as one number for purposes of subtracting Might, or do I subtract it from both individually?
add all adventure sources together as if they were a single adventure, just with different people by your side. So in thi case Vulpus would have 5+8-8 adventure experience, and can spend 5. Even if he does write a tractus.