Personality traits

From: ulyssez <ulyssez_at_...>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:15:50 -0000

I've played KoDP on and off for years now, but lately I've begun to get into some of the knitty gritty aspects of the game. Now we all know that each noble has her own agenda and personality traits. I wonder exactly how many personality types or traits there are?

From peeking at the OSL script on the A# site, we know that there are at least 5 traits: AntiAldryami, ProDragonewt, Proverbial, Patriarchal and Matriarchal. All of these are fairly obvious and with pretty specific tendencies. But from my observation, I believe there are also these traits:

Smart diplomat: In diplo negotiations, always consider the opponent's personality and makes good advice. Martial/Arrogant: Confident, likes contests and tend to disdain carls. Tribemaker: Makes advice that would steer the clan toward a tribal throne, even from an early stage. Religious: High respect for deities, likes temples. Warlike: Obvious.
Pacifist: Also obvious.
AntiUndead: Yeah.

These traits I'm fairly certain of. There are also traits like hateful, poetic, romantic/heroic and cowardly that I'm not quite sure of. There are probably also other situation-specific Anti- and Pro- traits that would be harder to observe.

From some of the game text, I imagine there may also be traits like guileful, daring, generous, honest, greedy and so on, and perhaps even things like "scared of snake", etc. But I suspect that these are traits for NPC clan chiefs only, since I've yet to see any noble that consistently show any of these traits.

Any other observation? And would the Lords of A# mind divulging any secrets on this?