Traits

All characters start the game with two Traits
Traits are typically a combination of a positive and negative effect
A third Trait may be acquired after drinking the potion given to the player after the Tsun fight in Sovngarde

Acoustic Arcanist

Your magic flows through melody and vibration. After playing an instrument at an inn, your sonic spells become 20% more powerful. However, your booming presence makes hiring followers more expensive, and your reliance on sound magic weakens your physical attacks by 15%.

Adrenaline Rush

You possess a natural flight response. When at less than 20% health, you move 20% faster and regenerate 0.5 stamina per second but also deal 20% less damage when below this threshold.

Angler

Your bond with the sea grants unique benefits. Mudcrabs and slaughterfish become friendly toward you. Fishing yields more valuable items. Fishing rods deal double damage and have a chance to summon a mudcrab to fight at your side. The summoned mudcrab becomes stronger if you're carrying an insect or small fish. Fishing rods can be enchanted. However, your affinity with the waters leaves you 25% more vulnerable to shock damage.

Au Naturel

Embrace your divine gifts! Start with +100 health, magicka, and stamina. For each piece of armor or clothing you wear, you lose 40 from each attribute (up to a maximum loss of -160 with four pieces equipped). Additionally, you gain +1 to health, magicka, and stamina per level for each empty armor slot (head, chest, hands, and feet).

Bad Natured

You were born into wickedness. Your attacks while being crouched deals 20% more and you're better at pickpocketing. However, attacks while standing up do 20% less and wearing a divine amulet will hurt you.

Balanced Casting

Pick a resistance (fire, frost, shock, poison or magic). Both you and enemies within 200 feet have this resistance reduced by 25%.

Bane of the Wicked

You are an enemy to all things abhorrent. Deal 20% more damage to undead, daedra and werewolves. However, do 10% less damage to other beings.

Big Swing

Power attacks are 20% stronger, but light attacks are 25% weaker.

Blighted Fists

Your afflictions fuel your fury! Your unarmed attacks deal +10 unresistable disease damage per disease, and the effect of diseases on you is reduced by 50%. Your disease resistance is reduced by 200%.

Blood Mage

You tap into your own life essence to empower your blood magic, increasing its potency, but leaving you more fragile. Blood and Absorb spells are 20% stronger, but your health is reduced by 2 * your level.

Blood Warrior

You take 50% more physical damage and have 100% weakness to Poison. However you start with +50 health and gain +5 health per level.

Bulwark

When standing still, you gain 200 armor rating and reflect 10% physical damage. You drain 1 additional stamina per second while sprinting and 0.25 when running.

Defiler

The only use you have for the living is to resurrect them in death. Deal 20% more damage to playable races. However, do 10% less damage to other beings.

Disbeliever

You reject the influence of gods, placing your faith in logic and reason instead. Dwemer weapons and armor are 25% stronger, but you cannot receive blessings from shrines or divines.

Disciplined

Shoot to kill. Bows and crossbows deal 20% more damage. However, they draw/reload 25% slower.

Dominating Will

Your presence commands fear, intimidation checks almost always succeed, and frenzy spells are 20% stronger. However, your persuasive charm is lacking, making persuasion checks harder, and your pacifying spells are 20% weaker.

Dovah Tinvaak

You are fluent in Dragon speech and as such can shout 30% more often, at 30% reduced effectiveness.

Druid

Druids are attuned to nature, making spriggans friendly and reducing the cost of druidic spells by up to 30%. You can craft Lifebloom Essence from Taproot and Spriggan Sap for powerful regeneration. However, your bond with the wild leaves you 25% more vulnerable to fire and axes.

Drunken Mage

You regenerate no magicka while sober. When you drink alcohol, your Stamina and Magicka regeneration is increased by 100% and your next casted spell is 30% stronger.

Elemental Conduit

Fire spells are more powerful in sunny weather but lose potency in the rain. Shock spells are enhanced during rain but are less effective in snowy conditions. Frost spells excel in snowy weather but weaken under sunny skies.

Fast Shot

You'd rather shoot fast than shoot hard. Bows draw 30% faster, crossbows reload 30% faster. However, bows and crossbows deal 30% less damage.

Fatal Attraction

Your presence is as dangerous as it is alluring. You can choose one gender, you deal 20% more physical damage to the selected gender, but in turn, take 20% more from the other.

Fencer

Light melee attacks are 30% stronger, but power attacks are 25% weaker.

Focused

When in danger, you think before acting. When at less than 20% health, you regenerate 0.5 magicka per second and absorb 10% of incoming spells. However, you take 10% more damage when below this threshold.

Focused Combat

Pick onehanded, Twohanded or Marksman. Deal 10% more & take 10% less damage with this weapon type. However, you deal 10% less and take 10% more damage with the other two.

Focused Magic

Pick one school of magic, spells from that school are 25% stronger or last 25% longer but cost 10% more. However, the remaining 4 schools are 50% weaker.

Focused Precision

Your reliance on careful aim comes at a cost. Arrows and bolts deal 15% less damage, but have a 20% chance to push targets away. The strength of this pushback scales with your Marksman skill.

Gambler

You go in all or nothing. Gain 50% chance to critical hit. However, overall weapon damage is reduced by 25%. When you land a critical hit, your attacks do 10% more damage for 30 seconds (stackable up to 5 times).

Giantkin

Descended from the mighty giants; you gain 10% magic resistance and damage with blunt weapons, however you cannot read skill books, or use scrolls and staves.

Glutton

You LOVE food but hate medicine. Food benefits are 25% stronger but potions have only 50% their efficiency.

Good Natured

You have a good heart. Deal 20% less damage with weapons and Destruction spells. However, while wearing an amulet of the divines beneficial spells and potions last 20% longer and you take 20% less damage.

Hoarder

You love carrying stuff around, even if it's junk. Gain +100 carryweight. Selling prices are 50% worse.

Homeowner

You've secured a place to call your own, choosing one of Skyrim's fine homes to settle in. However, comfort comes at a cost: each week, you must make a mortgage payment based on the home's value.

Introvert

You thrive in solitude but falter in the crowd. When facing three or fewer enemies, you deal 15% more damage, whether with weapons or Destruction magic. Against four or more, your nerves get the better of you, and you deal 10% less.

Iron Knees

You take 50% less damage from enemy arrows and bolts. Getting hit with an arrow restores 20 stamina. However, you move 15% slower.

Jack of All Spells

But master of none. Novice, Apprentice and Adept spells are 20% stronger or longer lasting, expert and master spells are 20% weaker or shorter.

King of Worms

You've gained hidden insight into necromantic arts. You can have 1 additional summon or undead thrall. However, the duration of summon and resurrecting spells is reduced by 50%.

Light Foot

You've never felt comfortable in footwear. When not wearing boots/shoes, your movement is muffled, you move 5% faster and suffer half fall damage. When wearing boots/shoes you move 10% slower.

Lurker

When not wearing any clothes sneak attacks deal 2.5 times more damage and can sneak 25% better, and are 100% immune to disease. Eating fish when it's raw and wriggling triggers a powerful healing effect that lasts 10 minutes. However, armor provides no protection, cooked food offers no benefits, and weapons with a weight above 10 will deal no damage.

Marathon Runner

You regenerate 5 stamina per second while sprinting. However, you will not be able to gain any stamina while running or standing still.

Master of Destiny

You reject the influence of fate and star signs. Your birthsigns bonuses are removed, but you begin the game with 5 additional perk points and a permanent +5 boost to all skills.

Monk

Power attacks with quarterstaves will force the enemy to drop their weapon to the ground, however this only applies if you're not wearing any armor (light or heavy). You also recieve a unique battlestaff.

Nosferatu

You're an ugly sight and live in the sewers. -50 speech, no health, magicka or stamina regen outdoors. Eating skeever meat gives you a 10% speed boost and restores 5 health, magicka and stamina per second for 30 seconds.

Old Fashioned

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Weapons, armor and magical staves made of iron, wood, steel, fur or hide are 25% stronger. Otherwise, they are 10% weaker.

Pacifist

When your arms are lowered you restore 1 magicka and stamina per second. However, raising your hands in combat will have the opposite effect. Those born under the sign of the Atronach do not gain any benefits.

Phalanx

You deal 15% more damage with spears, javelins, pikes, and halberds. However, you take 50% more damage when hit from behind. Also gives you a unique pike.

Plagued Mind

Your undead summons and raised dead last 200% longer. However, your magicka is reduced to 0 while a friendly summon is active.

Quester

Start with 50 less Health, Magicka and Stamina. Gain 2 of each per 3 quests completed, up to a maximum of +200 at 300 quests completed.

Rage

You posses a natural fight response. When at less than 20% health, you deal 20% more damage and take 20% less damage. However, you move 20% slower when below this threshold.

Self-Taught

For every 5 book or notes read, gain 1 point of Magicka, for up to 300 Magicka at 900 read. However, you start with 100 less Magicka.

Serene Presence

Your calming aura makes you effortlessly persuasive: persuasion checks almost always succeed, and pacifying spells are 20% stronger. However, your intimidation attempts are half as likely to succeed, and your frenzy spells are 20% weaker.

Shehai

Your bound weapons do 15% more damage. But you take 25% more damage from the undead.

Silent Dovah

You choose not to speak the Thu'um, instead hoarding the souls of slain dragons to fuel your own power. For every 2 unspent dragon souls, you gain +5 Health, Magicka, and Stamina. However, this draconic strength rejects the curse of beast or blood: werewolves and vampires cannot harness its power. Your persuasion and intimidation attempts almost never succeed.

Skilled

Reading skill books grants an extra skill point and trainers cost 50% less, however every 5 levels you don't gain a perk point.

Soul Embed

At will, you can consume a dragon soul to amplify the magnitude of your shouts by 50% for 1 hour.

Soul Reaver

You've claimed countless souls for your gain. Weapon and armor enchantments are 10% stronger and use 10% less charge. Armor rating and weapon damage is reduced by 10%.

Sunkissed

You draw strength from the sun's radiant blaze: sun spells are 15% more powerful in your hands. But such warmth comes at a cost: you take 25% more frost damage, and this weakness deepens to 50% beneath the cold veil of night.

Swimmer

You prefer life on the water. In water, you swim 20% faster, can breath underwater and regenerate health, stamina and magicka by a flat 0.25 per second. On land, you suffer 50% less health, stamina and magicka regeneration.

The True Apprentice

All spells cost 60% less but are 40% weaker or last 40% shorter.

Touch of the Arcane

Your touch and cloak spells are 20% stronger. All other spell types are 10% weaker or last 10% less.

Unbound Hands

Handwear constricts you. Spells are 15% stronger and unarmed attacks do +30 more damage when not wearing gloves/gauntlets. However, they suffer the opposite effect when wearing gloves/gauntlets.

Unshakable

You turn defense into offense. Your shield bashes deal 50% more damage and cost 20% less Stamina. However, your unwavering focus on your shield makes you move 20% slower when not blocking.

Wanderer

Start with 50 less stamina and -50% stamina regeneration rate. Gain 1 stamina and 1% stamina regeneration for every 2 locations discovered, up to a maximum of +200 stamina and +200% regeneration at 400 locations.

Way of the Voice

You follow the pacifist creed of the Greybeards, and as such your hostile shouts are 30% less effective, but using non-hostile shouts has a 20% chance reset the shout cooldown.

Witcher

Potions and poisons you craft are 20% more effective, and consuming raw ingredients grants double the effect. However, you can only benefit from up to four active potion effects at a time.

Wizard's Wardrobe

Your wands are 30% more effective when wearing a wizard hat. When not wearing a wizard hat, all spells are 10% less powerful or last 10% less.

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