Personality & temperament

Personality is a list of adjectives on the create line, each optionally graded by an intensity: slightly, somewhat, very, or extremely. The built-in vocabulary is fourteen words — honest, loyal, cowardly, paranoid, cruel, cunning, curious, stubborn, generous, vain, devout, impulsive, remorseful, untroubled. A word outside that list is a compile error (analysis.trait-not-declared), not a silent no-op, so a typo is caught at build time; where a story genuinely wants another word, it declares one with define personality <word> first.

Temperament is how a person resolves a conflict between two motivations, written as <force> over <force>. The five forces are fear, desire, duty, honor, and love. Read it as a tiebreak, not a mood: duty over fear means that when duty and fear both pull, duty wins — which is what decides whether a frightened person still does the thing they promised. A temperament used by several people can be named once in a define temperament block and referenced by that name; a person who needs only one ordering writes it inline.

Personality colors how a line is delivered; temperament decides what a person actually does under pressure. Neither generates behavior on its own — both are read by the conversation layers and by Conscience.

define personality defensive

define temperament professional
  duty over fear
  duty over desire
end temperament

create Jonas Reed
  a person, proper, very impulsive, defensive, slightly honest
  temperament professional

create Marta Kell
  a person, proper, stubborn
  temperament duty over fear