Qualities is a category in your Journal which displays a list of events that affect your storyline. You can view them on the right page in the Journal tab of your Gazetteer, which is just marked "Journal".
Qualities are many things: some of them mark small standalone quests, and some are individual stages of progress or branching storylines in greater adventures. Certain Qualities are favours and menaces that might affect other events in your voyages. Qualities can be broadly split into two types: Stories and Circumstances. In early versions of the game, these two were presented differently, but those two categories have been merged since then. Nowadays, the only distinction is that Stories show their numeric value when you hover over them in the Journal, and Circumstances do not.
Internally, the game uses the concept of Qualities much more broadly: virtually everything is a quality. Not only Stories and Circumstances, but also Accomplishments, Goods, Ship statistics, and even the current assignment of Officers are treated as Qualities, with an id, a numeric quantity, and other common information. The type of the quality determines which part of the UI it shows in, and other things (like whether it takes space in the hold).
List of Qualities
Abyssal Rites
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Abyssal Rites: Above an Abyss | Abyssal Rites: Approaching Her Ladyship | Abyssal Rites: Diving... | |||
Abyssal Rites: Rite |
Acquaintance
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Acquaintance: Phoebe's Fate | Acquaintance: Sojourning with the Sisters |
Adam's Way
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Adam's Way: a Guest at a Red Table | Adam's Way: the Tree of a Single Day |
Aigul
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Aigul: Acquaintance with the First Mate | Aigul: Commissioned to Retrieve a Regret | Aigul: First Mate's Sensitivity | |||
Aigul: Knowledge of the First Mate's Question | Aigul: Needle of Fortas |
Ambition
Another Day
Anthe
At Last
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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At Last: the Threshold |
Cladery Treatment
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Cladery Treatment: Cumaean Locks | Cladery Treatment: Irem | Cladery Treatment: Nuncio | |||
Cladery Treatment: Port Carnelian |
Dahut
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Dahut: Clarity | Dahut: Enthralment | Dahut: Length of stay | |||
Dahut: Seeking a Prisoner of Dahut |
Doom
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Doom: Frostfound's Core | Doom: Scholar's Madness | Doom: Wisdom Forewarned |
Empire of Hands
Favours
Gant Pole
Hideaway
Investigating Nook
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Investigating Nook: A Bundle of Nerves | Investigating Nook: A Hempen Man | Investigating Nook: A Vile Drill | |||
Investigating Nook: Missing Supplies | Investigating Nook: The Nerveless | Investigating Nook: The Orphanage |
Isle of Cats
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Isle of Cats: Isery's Patronage | Isle of Cats: Lady of the Cages' Patronage | Isle of Cats: The Pirate-King's Notice |
Kingdom
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Kingdom: Coffee is Power | Kingdom: Founded | Kingdom: Knowledge is Power | |||
Kingdom: Wealth is Power | Kingdom: a Name | Kingdom: your Viceroy |
Learning About
Lineage
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Lineage: Captains Lost |
Low Barnet
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Low Barnet: Lucrative Beliefs | Low Barnet: Story Contests | Low Barnet: Storyteller | |||
Low Barnet: Wandering Parson |
Maybe
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Maybe: Irem | Maybe: Khan's Shadow | Maybe: Naples | |||
Maybe: No Lilac | Maybe: Port Carnelian | Maybe: The Chelonate | |||
Maybe: The Isle of Cats | Maybe: Whither |
Memoirs
Menaces
Mutton Island
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Mutton Island: Another Day | Mutton Island: Refugee Crisis | Mutton Island: The Airs Of Mutton Island |
Networks
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Networks: An Opportunity - Khan's Heart | Networks: An Opportunity - Port Carnelian | Networks: Khan's Heart | |||
Networks: Port Carnelian |
Nook
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Nook: A Chattering | Nook: A Player of Games | Nook: A Taste of Backwash | |||
Nook: A Taste of Freedom | Nook: The Currents of Nook | Nook: The Depths of the Maw | |||
Nook: The Memory of the Beast | Nook: Tolerance for Nookwater | Nook: Treasures of the Maw | |||
Nook: Trusted |
Nuncio
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Nuncio: Cultivating Friendships with Postmen | Nuncio: Deliverance | Nuncio: Learned in Postal Secrets | |||
Nuncio: Worker in Dead Letters |
Objective
Pigmote Isle
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Pigmote Isle: Civilisation | Pigmote Isle: Mastery | Pigmote Isle: Might | |||
Pigmote Isle: Progress Of A Nation | Pigmote Isle: Spirit |
Principles' End
Propagation
Romance
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Romance: Love in the Dark | Romance: Someone Back Home | Romance: a Child in London | |||
Romance: an Affair with... |
Rosegate
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Rosegate: The Bitter Flavour | Rosegate: The Dogged Apprentice | Rosegate: The Fate of a Cigar | |||
Rosegate: The Final Flavour | Rosegate: The Luscious Flavour | Rosegate: The Robust Flavour | |||
Rosegate: The Tobacconist's Impatience |
Sacks and Snow
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Sacks and Snow: A Chill Presence | Sacks and Snow: Heart of Snow | Sacks and Snow: In the Service of Mr Sacks | |||
Sacks and Snow: The Snow Child's Name | Sacks and Snow: What Snow May Become |
Saviour's Rocks
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Saviour's Rocks: Caught in the webs of Saviour's Rocks |
Scrimshander
Station III
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Station III: Acquainted with a Heartmetal Smith | Station III: Earning the Acolyte's Favour | Station III: Trading in Long Boxes |
Supremacy
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Supremacy: Affairs in Port Carnelian | Supremacy: London | Supremacy: The Anarchists | |||
Supremacy: The Dawn Machine | Supremacy: The Khanate |
The Gods of the Zee
The Last Constable
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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The Last Constable: Demeaux Island | The Last Constable: Gaider's Mourn | The Last Constable: Khan's Heart | |||
The Last Constable: On The Trail | The Last Constable: Venderbight |
Uncovering Mysteries
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Uncovering Mysteries: An Infernal Fate | Uncovering Mysteries: the Shattered Citadel |
Undercrow
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Undercrow: Delivering a Letter | Undercrow: Dying Grace | Undercrow: Incomparable Aurelian | |||
Undercrow: Lorenzo's Husk | Undercrow: The Almost Dead Man |
Varchas
Visage
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Visage: Expertise in Parts | Visage: Ritual Participant | Visage: your Mask |
Witnessed
Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality | Portrait | Quality |
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Witnessed: the Curator's End |