Character Traits

[Mete Han]

Do we have a list of all the traits a General can get? If not maybe I should go ahead and start listing the traits and what they mean.

[Quintus.JC]

I know a reliable link, although it could look a bit more presentable.

http://noctalis.com/dis/totalwar/

[TheLastPrivate]

Here's a very detailed guide of character traits on gamefaqs:

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/dos...e/931592/50116

[Old Geezer]

Had the developers any real feel for the middle ages they'd have included traits such as "great falconer," or "superb dancer," or "skilled poet" or "wears pointy shoes well" or "boar killer" or "hates usury" or "uses a fork" or "reads Latin".

[Marauder]

This forum's FAQ has a pretty good writeup on the stats:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...t=72109&page=3

[I of the Storm]

Had the developers any real feel for the middle ages they'd have included traits such as "great falconer," or "superb dancer," or "skilled poet" or "wears pointy shoes well" or "boar killer" or "hates usury" or "uses a fork" or "reads Latin".

Good point. "reads Latin" should have "literate" as a prerequisite which should be hard to come by before the late era...

[CavalryCmdr]

Good point. "reads Latin" should have "literate" as a prerequisite which should be hard to come by before the late era...

Not so, most nobles were literate even in the earliest time frame, and since almost all relevent characters would have been of noble birth (even if not royalty) they would therefore probably be literate. Also in the earlier time frame the bible was only available in Latin "reads Latin" would likely be a trait anyone with reasonably good (say 4+) piety would have, as well as anyone with a 'history' based trait.

In reality only commoners lacked proper education.

[I of the Storm]

Yes, of course. I wasn't entirely serious in my previous post. Seriously spoken, you can't generalise it. Literacy depended too much on regions, character, influences (i.e. on what interests were en-/discouraged), time period (and on available things to read not the least) etc. to be able to talk of some base educational level, even among royalty imo.
There are poems by Emperor Heinrich VI. for example. Actually put to parchment by himself? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. There are also letters from one noble to the other (not many though). Did they write them? Most probably not, they had notarys for that. The whole matter is just too diverse for me, so please don't touch my cliché, thank you.