Socialize
Trait Description: Socialize is the capacity both to understand the feelings and motives of others and to negotiate the complex network of customs, manners and etiquette found in every culture. While Socialize is used to blackmail someone or to start rumor campaigns, other Abilities, such as Larceny, are necessary to actually acquire blackmail information or to uncover facts that can be used to support such rumors.
Specialties: Discern Motivation, A Particular Culture, Interacting with the Upper Class, Lying
Trait Effects: Someone with Socialize 1 can probably flatter a vain courtier or arrange an assignation with someone of a lower social class. Someone with Socialize 3 can obtain powerful political favors merely by asking the correct people in the right way or successfully blackmail a noble without evidence. Someone with Socialize 5 can topple a popular ruler by starting rumors of her misdeeds or completely understand the motivations of someone she has just met.