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Alignments are what define your character's physical appearence: whether your character is good, evil, pure, corrupt.
Game Differences
Fable/Fable: The Lost Chapters
In Fable and Fable: The Lost Chapters the alignment is quite simple, it includes:
Fable II
In Fable II, the alignment system has been expanded greatly. In addition to the original alignments in Fable, the following new alignments are included in Fable II:
- Purity and Corruption
- Strong and Weak
- Funny and Scary
- Love and Hate
- Cruelty and Kindness
- Wealthy and Poor
- Tall and Short (editable with Knothole Island)
These new scales of alignment will allow players to create a possible 32 different combinations, for a truly unique experience every time you play Fable II.
Fable III
Little is known about how expansive the alignment system for Fable III is so far. Although one known parameter is an expression called "Extreme Morphing" which has the Hero show their "true character", going as far as to have the Hero sprouting a pair of wings. The colour and shape of the wings are based on the Hero's alignment - from white and pristine (good) to darker and ragged, (evil) and the size of the wings depending on the amount of followers the player has small wings (few followers) to large wings (many followers). If the player begins to take their morality to the utmost extremes, then they begin obtaining special visual effects. For example, evil characters wings will drip with what could be seen as blood or lava, and appear to have something moving across the surface, with glowing red cracks. Good characters receive a distortion effect, which could be seen as a glow. Evil characters also sprout a pair of horns during the expression, so an evil hero will probably not have a similar look to evil heroes in Fable I and II outside of extreme morph. It's also been seen that these wings will give the character special attack moves. The Hero does indeed change outside of extreme morph with his/her skin going pale and getting dark rings around the eyes, the eyes themselves start going white but sometimes goes near jet black (this could be caused by corruption which is in the game but has no bar to show it)
The Extreme Morphing can also be used as part of an interaction with an NPC
Character Alignment
These are alignments that are part of your character, and are global for all NPCs. Some of these can affect your appearance.
Good and Evil
Fable II Good
Good and Evil, the most basic sense of morality in the game. Many decisions that are either good and evil affect both you and the world around you. For example, the action you take with the warrants at the beginning of the Fable II determines the fate of Bowerstone Old Town as well as giving you good or evil morality points.
An evil woman Fable II
Your character's outward appearance will also reflect your alignment. Being good will give you blue eyes, a smile with pearly white teeth, blond hair (you can also use Dyes in Fable II to change them), and a halo. Being bad will give you black hair (balding as well in Fable 1/TLC), pale skin, red eyes, rotting teeth, and if at an extreme point, devil horns. These appearances can vary slightly in Fable II depending on the Purity scale. Your dog's appearance is also affected by your alignment. A dog with a good owner will have a golden or platinum coat depending on breed and blue eyes, while a dog with an evil owner will be pitch black with red eyes.
Good and Evil moralities also have an effect on how the people respond to you, either with love or hate, affection or fear, etc. The choices you make that have effects on more than just your character, usually affect the Good/Evil part of your alignment. (In Fable II, you can either be bad or good, and people could love you depending their Love/Hate and Cute/Ugly factors.)
Purity and Corruption
Where Good and Evil affect the world around you, Purity and Corruption affect only your character's appearance. Things like drinking, paying for sex, having multiple spouses, and charging too much rent all make you corrupt. While eating vegetables, having a happy family, doing jobs in town and lowering rent will make you pure.
Being pure will give your character a perfect complexion and a generally healthy appearance, while being corrupt will give your character yellow/green eyes and red blotches covering his/her skin. Additionally, a fully corrupt character will lose 30 points of attractiveness, while a fully pure character will gain 30 points.
Combinations
Fable II combines different levels of "Pure/Corruption" and "Good/Evil" for different results. Various "Personality Titles" are attributed to the Hero, and certain combination appearances occur if the sliders are in the opposite spectrum that do not occur in other ways. For example, High Evil and High Purity result in a title of "The Fanatic," which results in a pale-blueish skin, red eyes rather than green eyes and no horns.
| Good/Evil | Purity | Result | Appearance | Personality Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Good | High Purity | Saint | No scars, tan skin, halo, blue eyes, blonde hair | You're as pure and benevolent a being as Albion has ever seen. |
| High Good | Neutral | Philanthropist | Green eyes, blonde hair, normal skin | Your every action is guided by selflessness and the belief that you can make the world a better place. |
| High Good | High Corrupt | Decadent | Pox marks, bags under eyes, blonde hair, flies, yellow-green eyes | You would go out of your way to help others but you're just as concerned with helping yourself - usually to food, drink, and assorted pleasures. |
| Neutral | High Purity | Purist | Glowing white teeth, perfect skin | The principle that guides your life is purity of mind and body, without too much concern for banal matters like "morality." |
| Neutral | Neutral | Opportunist | Brown eyes, normal skin, brown hair | You inhabit a morally gray area, doing what you feel like, when you feel like it. |
| Neutral | High Corrupt | Debaser | Flies, yellow eyes, unfocused pupils | You are too preoccupied with your own pleasures to care much about the fate of others. |
| High Evil | High Purity | Fanatic | Pale-blueish skin, red eyes, no horns (chance of having purple eyes) | Your devotion to the purity of your body is only matched by your declaration to pure evil. |
| High Evil | Neutral | Demon | Red eyes, greyish skin | Your every action is guided by malevolence. You care little for anything else. |
| High Evil | High Corrupt | Ghoul | Large scars, big horns, glowing green eyes, mortified skin (Cannot have red skin) | You are as degenerate as you are evil. The world has seldom seen such a dark being. |
Your Halo (if you are complete Pure and Good) may dissapear every once in a while. It may also show up occasionally if you are complete Pure and Evil, though this may be a glitch.
Fable III Morality Alignment Chart
Positive Choices impact
| Actions | Alignment Points |
| Give coin to a beggar | +1 morality |
| Consume tofu or carrots | +1 morality |
| Consume celery | +2 morality |
| Capture Criminals | +10 morality |
| Story choices | +25 to +175 morality |
Negative Choices impact
| Actions | Alignment Points |
| Threaten | -1 morality |
| Assault a villager | -5 morality |
| Vandalize | -5 morality |
| Consume crunchy chick | -5 morality |
| Drag a citizen to work | -10 morality |
| Kill a citizen or soldier | -15 morality |
| Story choices | -25 to -175 morality |
Wealthy and Poor
Wealth relates to how much gold a character has. There is very little effect to the world, other than the comments that villagers make. Wealth will also effect the town's economy where you live if you own any of the shops/houses or go on shopping sprees every once in a while.
Scars
Your character also picks up scars when their health bar runs out. These scars will disappear after the main storyline, or by donating to the Temple of Light. This can also be done by sleeping in the bed at Fairfax Castle or using a Potion from Knothole Island.
Physical Traits
There are certain part of your Hero that are specifically refer to a character's body type.
Young and Old
Your hero will age at least ten years, as a result of the time in the Tattered Spire that will elapse when you rescue Garth. Your age is not numerically specified (it is in the first Fable), but the game will end with you being in your late twenties or early thirties. Your character can also undergo rapid aging by sacrificing your youth; in the process sustaining Reaver's, by holding onto the Dark Seal, making you significantly older. This, however, can be avoided by handing the seal over to the woman next to you while the Shadow Court prepares the ritual, though it is possible to restore your youth after you finish the main quest. You will, however, gain 50 evil points for doing so. It is also a reversible effect by donating gold to the Temple of Light (but the eye colour will not revert back to normal). In Fable III, your character ages prematurely with the use of Will.
Tall and Short
A character's height is increased with Accuracy in Fable II. With the Knothole Island expansion, potions can be bought that increase or decrease height. Height has no affect on anything except the comments people make such as "I don't remember you being so tall", and "I wish I could be that tall...". There is also the problem of not being able to crawl through small holes if you're too tall, however, using the appearance altering potions is considered impure since the character would be artificially changing his/herself to suit his/her own selfish desires.
Slim and Fat
Weight is gained when eating fatty foods. A fat character is usually considered unattractive to villagers. Eating celery can help a character to lose weight. Knothole Island has potions that increase and decrease weight, as well, however, using those specific potions is considered impure since the character would be artificially changing his/herself to suit his/her own selfish desires.
Strong and Weak
A character's strength is increased with Physique in Fable II, and strong character is more attractive than a weak character. Adding to the physique ability will add damage to your melee weapons by multiplying the weapon's strength by 1.25 for each level that your physique is increased by (Level 1 Physique x1, Level 2 Physique x1.25).
Opinion Alignment
These alignments relate how NPCs see your character, and so they vary between each NPC.
Love and Hate
This is another person's opinion of you, and can be altered by your alignment and actions. Performing amiable expressions, having a "Good" alignment (though not entirely necessary), shopping in a keeper's store, and giving gifts often raise a villager's love for you. Whereas malicious acts like brandishing a weapon, stealing, murdering, and so forth can make a villager hate you. The same sex will also begin to hate you if you aren't wearing any clothes. Being loved or hated can often have an effect on shopping, as loved characters will get discounts and hated characters will be forced to pay more. Also, if you own a shop and your shopkeeper loves you, you will gain more revenue from that area. Being loved or hated can also have an effect on any potential marriage.
Funny and Scary
This is how intimidating you are to another person, and is mostly altered by appearances and actions. Performing expressions under the "Scary" category will usually increase how scary a character is, and performing expressions under the "Fun" category will usually increase how funny a character is. Cross-dressing and Ridiculousness are changes to appearance that increase how funny a character is, and Aggressiveness can increase how scary a character is. A character's past actions also affect how scared villagers are. Going on a killing spree will give you a reputation in the region and even people who have not seen you before will be scared of you. If a shopkeeper is scared, the character will get a discount, however there is no markup for being funny
Attractive and Ugly
Attractiveness is affected by clothing, hairstyles, makeup, purity and fatness. However, the type of clothing a villager likes is relative to the villager. A thug will find a character wearing less posh clothes attractive, whereas an aristocrat will find a character wearing more posh clothes attractive. Also, there are certain actions that can change a person's opinion of your attractiveness. Drinking experience potions increases attractiveness to villagers, whereas failing the fart or belch expressions increases ugliness to villagers.