Originally Posted by TheOtherTed
what happened to my versatile humans' starting feat?
Your Versatile Human traded in his Starting Feat for Militia Training and Beast of Burden abilities [sarcasm].

The Extra Skill Proficiency can be set to any Skill, it is not limited by starting Class, with Persuasion simply being the default for some reason. It is conveniently at the bottom of the list, I suppose ...