The level of reactivity has been a genuine surprise, giving each lifestyle a distinct narrative flavour that's further enhanced by the choices you make and random chance. If you're all about guile and intrigue, you'll be making a lot of shady deals and sneaking around, but at the same time you'll be coming across all sorts of emergent events that take your proclivities into account. They are still the sum of their experiences and relationships, good and bad, and that history can't be rewritten. This doesn't mean that you can just recreate your character. In keeping with Crusader Kings 3's 'anything goes' attitude, you don't have to pick the focus connected to the tree you're progressing down, and you can change trees, foci and even lifestyles whenever you want. If your ruler was a rambunctious little hellion as a youth, you might be best served picking the martial lifestyle though an entirely different one might be even more beneficial depending on the state of your dynasty.Įach lifestyle is further split into three trees, which in turn have an associated focus that gives you additional thematic bonuses as long as it's selected. You can pick whatever you want, but you'll get a bonus if your choice lines up with their childhood experiences.
Every character, whether you're playing them or not, has a lifestyle.
