Can I control what personality traits my child gets?

[Lymark]

Is it just completely random? Is it based on the the guardian's? Or maybe the events that change the child's personalities will occur more often If I were to be my child's guardian?

[Thomas Robertson]

I think If you educate them personally, you stand a better chance of obtaining the traits you want for them, that's my understanding so far.

[alation13]

There is also a "selector" where you can choose their childhood focus.

[Ficelle]

It seems childs get their traits randomly
Perhaps there are some genetics involved, but it is well hidden

If you educate the child yourself, you will get some events to switch a trait for another
The switching often comes with stress for you...and the new possible traits arent always worth it anyway

Also, educating a child yourslef if you are bad at the child focus is probably not a great idea

[Mansen]

Some traits are just random and birth and through childhood events. Whoever educates your child (if any) will likely pass on some of their traits (brave, craven and so on). As for what education they get, you either get a random one based off of their stats, or you pick one from they're at least 6 years old (An icon appears on their character screen)

[Lymark]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

If you educate the child yourself, you will get some events to switch a trait for another
The switching often comes with stress for you...and the new possible traits arent always worth it anyway

I can't recall, but won't I get those events If my kids were to be taught by someone else too?

[Ficelle]

Originally posted by Lymark:

Originally posted by Ficelle:

If you educate the child yourself, you will get some events to switch a trait for another
The switching often comes with stress for you...and the new possible traits arent always worth it anyway

I can't recall, but won't I get those events If my kids were to be taught by someone else too?

Im not 100% but i dont think...or it is much rarer

[MasterKroket]

If you educate a ward (not just your children) personally you get to pick.
Sometimes its a choice between 3 bad ones too...
It almost always causes stress to pick something else than suggested though...
But if you want to groom your heir... it can be a good idea.
Of course if it seems he ll be good in another field it can be smarter to let someone with 4 stars in one of those categories do it. With the risk of him getting bad traits... but his education should be better.

I wonder what happens if you educate the son yourself but after he has 2/3 traits in the bag you switch to some specialist in his focus? will that work? Kids also gain 'base' points i think they might have to do with the guardian too.

[ijiero]

First: There are child traits like 'bossy' which will change into adult traits after a while. Bossy may lead to ambitious, or just, or others.

When you are the guardian, you will get events where your child has gained a new trait (like the aforementioned ambitious, just, etc...). At this point the options allow you to change it to two different ones at the cost of stress to your own character. For example, when the child gains the trait honest, you can change it to humble or another second trait. This will happen three times during the child's childhood.


Second: The 'education' trait the child gets will be directly influenced by the guardian. If you yourself have a one star diplomacy education and you want your child to have four stars... set someone with four stars in diplomacy as its guardian. The odds of the child getting a four star education will increase, at the cost of not being able to pick traits three times.

If your child has the intrigue focus and diplomacy shows as red; don't pick a diplomatic education for them. They'll be horrible at it. There's always two green focuses for a child; pick one of those.

[Lymark]

Originally posted by ijiero:

First: There are child traits like 'bossy' which will change into adult traits after a while. Bossy may lead to ambitious, or just, or others.

Is there a list of which these childhood traits might change into thru adulthood? Or, I'd assume it could turn into any of the relevant traits?