Traits. Playing the game, I've been getting traits at random, every time a negative trait, and half the time without it even telling me. For example, all of my characters are "unsightly", my kind of citizen character is "disloyal", and my guy who found King Harlus II's sword and went "You know, there's alot of history behind this sword, the guy who wielded it, and this ruin... I'm going to use this sword to fight for Swadia!" and thus joined King Cedrus's army and became a Swadian Knight is now fat (which I only found out when I opened the traits menu to see if I got any less unsightly, both of these negative traits happened without it telling me, but it never tells you anything when you've been enlisted as a soldier), which really makes no sense considering that he's a soldier who sees combat all the time and lives off bread and water...

So I was just wondering, what's the point of the trait system? Is it just something to make the game harder by giving you negative things to deal with? I hear that there was a recent patch to decrese the chances of randomly getting traits like "ugly" and to make it not happen at the beggining of the game, but I'm not sure that changed much for me because I recently got an "ugly" character on day 2 or something like that.

I was also wondering if there are any positive traits and I'm just really unlucky. It's just that I haven't come across any is all.

Also, is there a way to get rid of negative traits? Once again, I've heard that the answer to this is yes, but I'm becoming rather skeptical - You get rid of "ugly" by wearing expensive gear? But my Swadian Knight is still ugly to the point where people find it hard to look at him, and his armor is pretty expensive, I'd think...

Anyway, what I mean to say, is that while this mod truely is a great mod (new units, new factions, other things to do besides combat, and good music), the traits are becoming rather annoying, and my Swadian Knight is getting depressed because he is fat and ugly, which just goes to show that Swadian Knights aren't really the peak of evolution as we previously believed.