Virtues

Britannia is built on eight virtues, and they’re a real game system — not just lore. By acting in a virtue’s spirit you gain in it, and at high enough standing you can invoke a power tied to it. Open the virtue menu (the gump on your paperdoll) to see your standing and invoke the ones that are activated that way.

The three paths

Each virtue is gained in stages (VirtueLevel): Seeker → Follower → Knight. Most powers require at least Seeker to invoke, and the strength of the power scales with your level. Acting against a virtue can also cost you standing in it.

The eight virtues

Virtue	How you gain it	What it does
Sacrifice	Killing certain powerful/evil creatures for the cause	Grants resurrections — invoke to raise the dead (yourself or others); your number of available resurrects scales with your level (AvailableResurrects).
Valor	Fighting champion-spawn creatures	Invoke on a Champion Idol to challenge the spawn — instantly advancing it / summoning the champion without grinding every level. See Champion Spawns.
Honor	Honorable combat (fighting fair, sparing the helpless)	“Embrace honor”, then target a creature to fight it honorably for a combat bonus (perfection / extra damage as you fight cleanly). Has a cooldown between uses.
Justice	Sparing/protecting others rather than killing	Invoke to protect another player; when your protectee earns champion power scrolls, you receive a share too — the classic protector’s reward.
Compassion	Escorting NPCs to their destinations (not invoked from the menu)	Passive standing that reflects acts of mercy; built up purely through escort quests.
Humility	Acts of humility / handicap challenges	Invoke (Seeker+) to embrace a pet with humility — a self-handicap for greater reward.
Spirituality	Spiritual acts	Invoke (Seeker+) to embrace a living target with spirituality.
Honesty	Returning lost “honesty” items	Trove/lost items spawn in the world tagged to an owner or region; return them to gain Honesty (and a reward for honest behavior).

(VirtueName order in source: Humility, Sacrifice, Compassion, Spirituality, Valor, Honor, Justice, Honesty.)

Why bother

Virtues are quietly powerful end-game tools:

• Sacrifice is a free, no-skill resurrection option — handy for a fighter with no Healing or Magery.
• Valor lets a prepared group skip a champion spawn’s grind and jump to the boss.
• Justice is how protectors at a Felucca champion spawn share in the power-scroll payout without landing the killing blows.
• Honor is a real melee damage buff for players who fight by its rules.

Most are slow to build — they reward playing in character over time — but each pays off with a power no amount of gold can buy.

See also

• Champion Spawns — where Valor and Justice shine
• Death & resurrection — Sacrifice as a rez option
• Notoriety & PvP — honor and justice in player conflict
• The world & its towns — Minoc (Sacrifice), Trinsic (Honor), and the virtue cities