The Maul turned to The Honorable? What's up with that?

Hello,
I was playing the scots with my fearsome king, Edward the Mauler. Edward, who was prince and high commander in my bloody and exceute\exterminate wars to unify britain under my rule, was about as bad as it gets: Full authority and command, 7 dread, tons of useful traits.

As I was butchering the danes, however, he gained the Chivalrous in Rule line of traits since I spared many cities from becoming useless husks which they do if I exterminate or sack them. And now, my 7 dread badass king has suddenly tunred from the Mauler to the Honorable!

I'm wondering if anyone knows excatly how this surname\monkiar\nickname is determined?

Some particular traits impart the description (and i'll leave it to someone who knows more about the files to explain).

Because of how the game works, if you get the highest in a chivalrous line of traits (as you have done) after you've got all of the dread lines of traits, you can get a 'honourable' leader with 10 dread (thanks to the last name gained being the one that is used)

If you want to keep your general with high dread, just sack all of the cities you conquer since you dont kill too much of the pop and you get a huge money boost

I once had a 7 chivalry king called the killer, cause I used a lot of assasins after using the king on a crusade.

Mine was the Watcher, and so was his son, and his son after him. They were also Scarred, Cruel, Killers, Chivalrous and Mad.

IMHO the "nicks" changes too easy. It should be based on a long term behaviour of the character or an amazing acomplishment in order to change. A successful crusading general should be called "the crusader" for a very long time maybee his entire life. A general that conquers very many provinces should be named "the conqueror" for life. Titles like "killer", "scarred" and even "merciless" is getting handed out by the game like cheap candy and I personally don´t appreciate this feat. I do miss the titles manually handed out in MTWI.

It changes to the last epithet, no matter what you had before.

You should keep going, 8 more points of StrategyChivalry (which is where the "honorable ruler" epithet comes from) and you will be "the saint"!

The Mauler is part of BattleDread. If you have Merciless Mauler, you have 6 points of it atleast. Getting 10 will give your general the Field Tyrant epithet, and 15 the Warlord of Terror. So keep having your general kill and slaughter the routing enemy himself. :)

Hehe
yust got something similar:
The Tyrant turned into The Chivalrious... just becouse of one crusade :thumbsdown:

Is it a similar reason that a general loses a star? I'll explain....
I had a 10 star killer general, best general in faction, took Prague and left him there for a few turns. Next thing you know he has lost a star and become chivalrous. He has also lost his best general spot since I have a younger guy with 10 stars but this younger guy has fought nowhere near the same amount of battles

......Orda