Your Virtue is a measure of how “Good” or “Evil” you are. It is a hyperbolic tangent function of your actions, meaning the further you get from 0% (truly neutral) the slower you will progress towards +/-100%.
Your actions affect your Virtue as follows:
| Action | Virtue Impact |
|---|---|
| Soul Trading (GiveSoul, StealSoul) | -ve unless your target is a Soul Cage that you own, then no impact |
| Soul Saving (FreeSoul, GatherSoul or using GiveSoul to return a character’s soul) | +ve unless your target is a Soul Cage that you own, then no impact |
| Consuming a Breather’s Vitae or allowing yours to be consumed if you are a Breather | -ve |
| Consuming Undead Vitae or allowing yours to be consumed if you are Undead | No Impact |
| Breather Offering Vitae | +ve |
| Praise | +ve impact on you (and your target if they are an Immortal) |
| Curse | -ve impact on you (and your target if they are an Immortal) |
| Sanctify Attack | +ve impact on the attacker if the target has -ve Virtue. No impact otherwise. |
| Blaspheme Attack | -ve impact on the attacker if the target has +ve Virtue. No impact otherwise. |
| Change (converting a character to your species if you are a Breather) | +ve impact on your virtue |
| Turning (converting a character to your species if you are Undead by offering them your Vitae) | -ve impact on your virtue |
Mystics are limited in how far their Virtue can deviate from zero, as not all of the above actions are available to them. Only an Immortal can attain -100% or +100%
Attaining a Virtue score of -100% or +100% leads to Enlightenment and immediate and irrevocable promotion to Level 6, regardless of whether you are part of a Group (Clan/Pack etc) and regardless of your level within a Group. Enlightenment is elusive and the path to enlightenment is a mystery, being different for each character. All that is known is that it takes a lot of every action to attain Enlightenment.
Having a truly neutral (0%) Virtue makes you immune to both the Sanctify and Blaspheme attacks and so has benefits of its own, however to remain truly neutral is a difficult task in a world where most actions carry a Virtue impact.