A personality instrument of dubious provenance
The Martell Bolton Test Unbowed, unbent, unbroken. We'll see.
Two houses lend their names to this instrument: one that refuses to break, and one that has made a careful study of where people do. Between them they cover most of what a personality test is actually for. Twenty questions, four axes, sixteen types, each one a person you have definitely worked with. No scientific validity whatsoever, which puts it roughly level with the original.
The four axes
Court / Yard
Where you go to get your strength back: the hall full of people, or the far end of the training yard.
Raven / Weirwood
What you trust: the message that arrived this morning, or the pattern you can see forming behind it.
Steel / Oath
How you decide: by what works, or by what you owe.
Keep / Gale
How you operate: dig in and hold the plan, or ride out and see what happens.
