Personality Traits

A character's personality and reputation are represented by five paired traits: Valor/Caution, Mercy/Cruelty, Honor/Deviousness, Generosity/Closefistedness, and Calculation/Impulsiveness. They reflect both a character's morality as well as pragmatic assumptions about what succeeds in the world: should you rigidly keep your oaths, or is everyone flexible and promises are for suckers? Should you plan every move with a long-term goal in mind, or will people not trust you if you don't show a bit of emotion?Traits will affect your relations with other characters as well as your chances at . They shape the behavior of NPCs in a number of ways, including how they get along with other characters, how they respond to , their choices in , and what kinds of quests they will offer. NPCs' personality traits are fixed, but players can develop their traits by the choices they make during the game.