Attributes

Arx Fatalis has four base attributes:

Name	Shorthand	Alias	Affected Skills
Strength	Str		Object knowledge (0.5), Close combat (2), Projectile (1)
Mental	Men	Mind	Technical (1), Intuition (2), Ethereal link (2), Object knowledge (1.5), Casting (2)
Dexterity	Dex		Stealth (2), Technical (1), Object knowledge (0.5), Close combat (1), Projectile (2)
Constitution	Con		Defense (3)

The raw attribute values without any modifiers are known as raw_<attribute>.

Absolute Item-based Attribute modifications

Equipped items can add or remove attribute points:

modabs_<attribute> = ∑<item>[ modabs(<item>, <attribute>) ]

Relative Item-based Attribute modifications

Alternatively, equipped items can also add or remove a percentage of the attribute points:

modrel(<item>, <attribute>) = modpercent(<item>, <attribute>) / 100
modrel_<attribute> = ∑<item>[ modrel(<item>, <attribute>) ] * ( raw_<attribute> + modabs_<attribute> )

Spell-based Attribute modifications

Curse/bless spells subtract/add one point per caster level for all attributes. Other spells don't modify attributes.

modspell(<attribute>, Curse,   <caster_level>) = -1 * <caster_level>
modspell(<attribute>, Bless,   <caster_level>) = 1 * <caster_level>
modspell(<attribute>, <spell>, <caster_level>) = 0

modspell_<attribute> = ∑<spell>,<caster_level>[ modspell(<attribute>, <spell>, <caster_level>) ]

Full Attributes

full_<attribute> = max(0, raw_<attribute> + modabs_<attribute> + modrel_<attribute> + modspell_<attribute> + cheats)

These are the values displayed in the player book.