Rome:Total War - Traits Descriptions

Rome:Total War - Traits

Descriptions

Trait Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Antitraits Culture
Aesthetic Lover of beauty ^Connoisseur Aesthete Austere Excl barbarian
Anger Anger Unquenched Anger Uncontrollable Rage Bloodhumour,
Phlegmhumour Roman, greek
ApicianRomanVice Gourmand ^Glutton Apician glutton Excl barbarian
ArchitectSkill ^Draughtsman Architect Great Architect Ignorance
Arse Minion ^Catamite
AssassinCatcher Survivor Expert survivor Aggressively Perverse Grotesuqely Perverse
AssassinMaster Stern Clean hands Killer from necessity Immune to death
Austere ^Spartan Austere Master of Assassins

ExpensiveTastes, Aesthetic Excl east, egypt

Authoritarian ^Strict governor Harsh governor Authoritarian governor NonAuthoritarian Excl roman
NonAuthoritarian Roman
AuthoritarianRomanVirtue ^Strict Authoritarian Rods and axes GoodAdministrator Excl barbarian
GoodAmbusher
BadAdministrator Jobsworth Administ Inept Stunningly incompetent GoodAttacker Excl roman, barb
GoodBuilder
BadAmbusher Poor Ambusher Rotton Ambusher Pathetic Ambusher GoodCavalryGeneral Roman, Greek
GoodCommander
BadAttacker Indifferent Incompetent Poor Pathetic GoodDefender Excl barbarian
Disciplinarian
BadBuilder Indifferent builder ^Inferior builder Appalling builder GoodEngineer
GoodFarmer
BadCavalryGeneral Poor Cavalry Command Inferior Cavalry Comma Useless Cavalry Commander GoodInfantryGeneral
GoodMiner
BadCommander Indifferent Incompetent Poor Pathetic GoodRiskyAttacker
GoodRiskyDefender
BadDefender Indifferent Incompetent Poor Pathetic GoodSiegeAttack
GoodSiegeDef
BadDisiciplinarian Poor Disciplinarian ^Too Considerate Kills with Kindness GoodTaxMan
GoodTrader
BadEngineer Inferior engineer ^Bad engineer Apalling engineer

BadFarmer Poor farmer Dislikes farming ^Loathes farmers

BadInfantryGeneral Poor Infantry Cmdr Inferior Infantry Cmdr Useless Infantry Cmdr

BadMiner Indifferent miner ^Poor miner Bad mine manager

BadRiskyAttacker Risk Taker Stupid Risk Taker Over Optimistic

BadRiskyDefender Mediocre When OutnumPoor When OutnumbereTo The Last Gasp

BadSiegeAttacker Dislikes attacking walls Useless besieger Pathetic Besieger

BadSiegeDefender Cowers behind walls Pathetic defender of cit Liability in defence

BadTaxman Useless Assessor Inefficient Taxman Tax Farmer

BadTrader Poor trader ^Inferior trader Apalling trader

BattleScarred Been in the wars `Scarred Horribly scarred Cruelly scarred

Berserker ^Axebitten Shieldbiter Berserker Barbarian

BlackBileHumour Gloomy ^Morose Melanchoilc BloodHumour, Phelgm,
Yellowbile
BloodHumour Positive ^Optimistic Sanguine Phlegm, BlackBile,
YellowBile
Bloodthirsty Bloody `^Sanguinary Bloodthirsty Sane, Haemophobic,
GamesHaterRomanVice
BoringSpeaker Tedious speaker Boring speaker ^Boring beyond belief Boring little tit InspiringSpeaker,
RhetoricSkill, PoeticSkill
Brave Untouched by Fear Brave Famously Courageous Utterly Fearless Insanely Brave Coward
CapturedEagle Eagle Taker Two eagles Eagle collector
Cheapskate Frugal ^Downright Miserly Cheapskate ExpensiveTastes, Aesthetic

Corrupt Flexible ^Dubious Corrupt Upright
CounterSpy Counter-Spy Counter-Espionage
Coward ^Subject of rumours Doubtful Courage ^Morbidly Fearful Spycatcher Ruled by Fear Brave, RomanHero
Cuckold Sly Cuckold Cuckold cuckold Craven Coward Faithfulwife
DeceiverVirtue Unusual Deceiver Great deceiver Outraged husband
Deranged Pillager ^Deranged Dangerously Mad Sane
Despoiler Obessional Train Plunderer Despoiler Roman
Disciplinarian Apparently loyal ^Drillmaster Martinet
Disloyal ^Doubtful loyalties Disloyal BadDisiciplinarian Roman, Greek
Loyal

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Rome:Total War - Traits

Descriptions

Trait Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Antitraits Culture
Drink `Social drinker Likes a drink Drunkard Drunken Lout ^Sot Paralytic Sobriety Excl barbarian
Embezzler Financially irregular Fiscally flexible Embezzler Upright Excl barbarian
Energetic Lively Very Lively Energetic Blessed with vitality Slothful
Epicurean Gourment of life ^Refined tastes Rarified tastes Stoic
ExpensiveTastes Mildly Extravagent ^Extravagent Wildly Extravagent Cheapskate, Austere
Faithful wife ^Wife above reproach Cuckold
FearsX Uncomfortable near X Fears X Terrified by X
Feck Strong lang ^Foul mouth
Swears like Irredeemably foul mouth SmoothTalker, Rhetoric Skill

Fertile Fruitful ^Fertile Prolific Inbred, infertile
Gambling
GamesFanRomanVice ^Gladiatorial Fan Likes a flutter Gambler Inveterate gambler
GamesHaterRomanVice ^No taste for blood
Gladiatorial obsessed Hero worships Gladiators GamesHaterRomanVice Roman
GamesFanRomanVice, Roman
Quietly dislikes the gam Publicly despises the games Bloodthirsty
Miserly
Generous Open handed ^Unstinting Generous
Genocide Butcher Destroyer Exterminator Won't take no for an anSexual Predator Prim, Upright
Girls `Casual Adulterer Blatant Ad Womaniser
GloriousFool Unlucky leader ^Glory Hunter Glorious fool Goodattacker,

Gooddefender,

Goodriskyattacker,

GoodAdministrator Bureaucrat Skilled bureaucrat Superb administrator Goodriskydefender Excl barbarian
GoodAmbusher Heroic BadAdministrator
GoodAttacker Great builder
GoodBuilder Good Ambusher Sneaky Ambusher Exceptional Ambusher Legendary BadAmbusher
GoodCavalryGeneral Heroic
GoodCommander Confident Good Superior Great ^Agriculturalist BadAttacker
GoodDefender
GoodEngineer Superior builder ^Excellent builder ^Superior trader Master trader BadBuilder
GoodFarmer
GoodInfantryGeneral Skilled Cavalry Cmdr Expert Cavalry Cmdr Cavalry Cmdr of genius BadCavalryGeneral Excl roman, barb
GoodMiner
GoodRiskyAttacker Confident Good Superior Great BadCommander
GoodRiskyDefender
GoodSiegeAttacker Confident Good Superior Great BadDefender
GoodSiegeDefender
GoodTaxman Engineer ^Superior Engineer Master engineer BadEngineer Excl barbarian
GoodTrader
Haemophobic Grower Farmer BadFarmer
HaleAndHearty
Handsome Skilled Infantry CommanExpert Infantry CommanInfantry Commander of Genius BadInfantryGeneral Excl barbarian
HarshJustice
HarshRuler Miner ^Superior miner Expert miner BadMiner

Chancer Intelligent Risk Taker Victory from jaws of defeat BadRiskyAttacker

Good When Outnumber Great When OutnumberStonewall BadRiskyDefender

Gate Breaker Wall Breaker Into the Breach Legendary BadSiegeAttack

Gate Keeper Strong as stone None shall pass Legendary BadSiegeDefender

Tax Assessor Efficient Taxman Cruelly Efficient Taxman BadTaxman

Trader BadTrader

Lily-livered Hates blood Terrified by blood Bloodthirsty

In the pink In rude health ^Hale and hearty Hypochondriac

^Good looking Handsome Noble aspect Godlike perfection Ugly

^Punisher Severe Harsh judge Just, LenientJustice

`^Heartless ruler Harsh ruler Cruel ruler KindRuler, NonAuthoritarian

HatesX Despies X Hates X Loathes X LaxPersonalSecurity
HighPersonalSecurity Watchful ^Security consious Obsessed by security HaleAndHearty
Hypochondriac Feeling poorly Given to ill health ^Hypochondriac
IanR Self publicist Spin doctor Excl egypt, barb
Ignorance Ignorant ^Pig ignorant Narcissist Rhetoric, Poetic, Strategic,
Tactical, Math, NaturalPhilo,
Willfully ignorant Logistic, Philosopy, Architect

Inbred ^Weak-chinned Swivel-eyed Feeble of brain Thin-skulled Bad bloodline Drooling inbred idiot Excl barbarian

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Descriptions

Trait Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Antitraits Culture
IndecisiveAttacker Hesitant Attacker GoodCommander, Excl barbarian
Over cautious attacker Indecisive attacker GoodAttacker
Infertile
Insane Flaccid ^Infertile Barren
InspiringSpeaker Hooting
Intelligent Outstanding speaker ^Hiding from the world Unhinged Loon Sane
Just Sharp BoringSpeaker
Even-handed ^Famous orator Great orator Roman
KindRuler
Intelligent Genius

^Just Absolutely Just Unjust, HarshJustice,
LenientJustice
Benevolent ruler Benign ruler ^Humane ruler HarshRuler, Authoritarian*

Landlubber Seaksickness Poor sailor Wretched landlubber Sailor
LaxPersonalSecuity
Careless Careless of security ^Trusting fool HighPersonalSecurity,
LenientJustice
Lewd Paranoia
Liar
LogisticalSkill Lenient Merciful judge ^Kind judge Just, HarshJustice, Unjust
LostEagle
Loyal Filthy minded Licentious ^Lewd
Mathematics
Miserly Untruthful Economical with the trut `Liar Pathological liar Upright
NaturalMilitarySkill
NaturalPhilosophy ^Understnd Logs Logs expert Logistician Excl barbarian
Noctophilia Roman
Noctophobia Disgraced Utterly Disgraced RegainedEagle Excl barbarian
NonAuthoritarian
Publicly loyal ^Proven loyalities Loyal Fanatically loyal Disloyal Roman, Greek, Egypt
Paranoia
^Understanding of Math Math expert Mathmatician Ignorance Excl barbarian
Perverted Excl eastern
PhelgmHumour Careful with money ^Tight fisted Miserly Generous Roman
Excl barbarian
PhilosophySkill Command Talent Natural Born Leader Natural Born General Military Genius Roman
Pious
PlainRomanVirtue ^Understand NatPhi Expert on NatPhi Natural philospher Ignorance Excl barbarian
PoeticSkill Roman
PoliticsSkill Like the dark Night owl Noctophilia Noctophobia Roman
Pragmatic Roman
Prim Alone in the dark Night terrors Noctophobia Noctophilia Roman
PublicAtheism Roman
PublicFaith ^Considerate governor Benevolent governor Liberal governor AuthoritarianRomanVirtue, Roman
Rabblerouser
RacesFanRomanVice Authoritarian
RacesHaterRomanVice
RegainedEagle Scant trust Suspicious A bit paranoid Paranoid Trusting,
ReligiousMania
RhetoricSkill LaxPersonalSecurity
RomanHero
Sacrilegious Immoral Degenerate Foul Practices Debauched Pereverse Not Safe with Man Prim
Sailor
Sane Calm ^Composed Phlegmatic BloodHumour, Blackbile,

Yellowbile, Anger

^Philosophically inclined Philosopher Abstruse philosopher

Reverent ^Respectful of the Gods Pious Sacrilegious

True Roman Good Honest Roman Virtus

^Fond of ribald rhymes `Poet Epic Poet Ignorance, BoringSpeaker

^Political Animal Politician Consummate politician

Rational Beliefs Pragmatic Utterly Pragmatic Supertitious

Firm Personal Morality ^Prim Prim and proper Lewd, feck, perverted

Faithless ^Atheist Despies the gods Hates the gods PublicFaith

Devout ^Religious Honours the gods Venerates the gods PublicAtheism

^Agitator Tub-thumper Rabblerouser Demagogue

^Race Goer Charioteer Fanatical Chariot Racer RacesHaterRomanVice

^Bored by Races Reads during races Works during races RacesFanRomanVice

Partly Redeemed Mostly Redeemed LostEasgle

Favour of the Gods ^Love of the Gods One of the Gods Sane, Sacrilegious

^Fluent speaker Skilled debater Rhetorical expert Ignorance, BoringSpeaker

Local hero Popular Hero ^Roman Hero National Hero Legendary Hero Coward

Irreverent ^Contemptous of the GoSacrilegious Pious, ReligiousMania

Good Sailor ^Nautical Expert Old Sea Dog Great Admiral Legendary Admiral Landlubber

Sane (Hidden) TouchedByTheGods,

Insane, Deranged,

ReligiousMania

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Rome:Total War - Traits

Descriptions

Trait Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Antitraits Culture
Scout Scout Roman
Secretive Discreet Close-mouthed Expert Scout Reconnaissance Specialist Talkative
Slothful Rather lazy Lazy Energetic Excl east, egypt
Smooth Talker Plausible Secretive Excl barbarian
Sobriety Sober Feck Excl barbarian
Spymaster Indolent Indolent Lazy Arse Roman
Stoic Epicurean
StrategicSkill Slick Smooth talker Ignorance Excl roman
Superstitious Pragmatic Roman
TacticalSkill Abstemious Teetotal Ignorance Barbarian
Talkative Secretive Roman
TouchedByTheGods Espionage Espionage Expert Spy Master Sane
Trusting Paranoia
Ugly Restrained ^Cold manner Stoic Handsome
Unjust
Upright ^Understanding of StrateStrategic expert Strategist Corrupt, Embezzler, Liar,
Girls
VictorOthersVirtue Rational concerns Superstitious ^Hugely superstitious
VictorRomanVirtue Cuckold, girls
Warlord ^Understanding of TacticTactical expert Tactician Xenophobia
WellConnectedWife Xenophilia
Xenophilia Loose-lipped Talkative Foolishy indiscreet BloodHumour, Phelgm,
Xenophobia Blackbile
YellowBileHumour Pawn of the Gods ^Falling Sickness Touched by the Gods

No enemies `Ingenous Trusting

^Plain Homely Ugly Repellent Scares small children

Judgemental ^Wrong headed Unjust

Trusty ^Honest Upright

Victor Famous victor Conquering hero Legendary warlord
Vanqisher Great Vanquisher Conqueror
^War chief Mighty war chief Warlord ^Fascinated by outsiders
Astute wife Well mannered wife Motivated wife ^Loathes foreigner
Welcoming foreign Likes strangers
Distrusts outside ^Cantankerous Hates strangers
Testy Choleric

Key : ` - Beneficial up to this level , ^ - No going back at this level

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