[The Philosopher]

I've heard it described, once, that the mental stats reflect their physical counterparts quite well.

Charisma is the mental Strength of your character, the measure of your willpower and your capacity to influence others. While it's nebulously defined - the game system lumps in "physical attractiveness" into the picture - it is not the kind of physical attractiveness you would conclude from strictly physical notions of beauty we may have, i.e. handsome face, tall, muscular, athletic, gorgeous curves. Rather, it's that personal magnetism, that certain je ne sais quois, that makes people almost irresistibly interesting, be they physical paragons of beauty or stunningly grotesque pictures of horror. Confidence, self-assurance, capacity for assertion, being able to take charge and sway things to their favour regardless of personal competence - those are usual characteristics of the charismatic.

Wisdom is the mental Constitution of your character, the measure of how resilient you are and how much mental trauma you can take and diget. It's also a measure of how empathetic you can be, how well you can understand others and intuit their manner of being.

Intelligence is the mental Dexterity of your character, the measure of how deftly and quickly you process the information you absorb, and how well you can react to new data and stimuli from your surroundings. It's what allows you to learn, analyze, inspect and memorize ever-increasingly complex