Weird trait assignment

[ErikMcAwful]

I am sure this has been brought up a few times already, but it is completely weird that executing people marks you as deceitful and not just cruel. I have only executed my faction's enemies, there's nothing deceitful about that. Cruel, sure, but who did I deceive?

And also, the world seems to care unrealistically much about it. About half of my faction has become enemies just because I've shown some diligence in our wars, and it's not like these people were related or anything.

Just my two cents.

 

[Helerek]

Because it's not honorable to murder an unarmed/defeated opponent. It's cruel to torture him, but dishonorable to murder him.

 

[ErikMcAwful]

Because it's not honorable to murder an unarmed/defeated opponent. It's cruel to torture him, but dishonorable to murder him.

But it is certainly not very deceitful either. I know how the game mechanics work, but it still doesn't make sense.

 

[Helerek]

But it is certainly not very deceitful either. I know how the game mechanics work, but it still doesn't make sense.

Deceitful is a name for perk associated with honor, so if you are honorless you are deceitful. After all the noble didn't die mid-combat, but gave up and you still killed him. That is deceitful. You have to understand Calradia is ruled by their own moral code and murdering/cutting off heads of other people is not right. For example you won't see any other nobles do that, beside you (unless you get -100 with them or be a Caladog).

 

[ErikMcAwful]

Ruled by quirky game mechanics, more like. And you must be the first person I've ever seen to claim that beheading people isn't a cruel thing to do. Although not mutually exclusive, cruelty and sadism are two different concepts.