I was looking at using some of the pregen characters in a campaign as npcs.  I looked at the level mystic and it shows a +9 in the mysticism skill, since you can only have 1 rank at level 1, I don't understand where the other +8 is coming from.  All of the pregen characters have some really high skills, and I'm not sure why.  Can anyone let me know what I'm missing?
Thanks!