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A personality is a type of legal (mainly business) entity in the Austral world, originating from and predominant in Varasan, in which a physical person's legal and social persona may be described to encompass other objects beyond the body (or the 'ultracarnal'). For locals and local law, the distinction is trivial. In translation, personalities are most often talked of as 'estates' of a particular individual. Today in the field of business personalities are one of the main commercial organizations alongside trusteeships, and abstract corporate trusteeships were first devised in Sostria based on personality practices.

Until relatively recently the gravity of most personality dealings has been exceptionally heavy but also relatively rarely an issue in itself, because personalities almost exclusively existed for various exalted officeholders, mainly priests to lords. The significance of the personality in law became self-evident because of these associations, and that the authority of most people with a personality had some sort of sacred and immanent grounding. Starting in the 14th century however, the growth of Varasanian commerce allowed individual magnates to claim such rights, which was subject to no small controversy and several large wars in which the merchant class had to establish its supremacy. Another change was the emergence of more well-defined local enterprises, who were established in the name and person of the locality's headman, claiming a meager, confused bit of the same transcendent authority the great lords had held. Policies and practices relating to this new complex environment were clarified over the course of the 19th century.

As typical of most practices of creating legal persons, a personality is ultimately liable for anything relating to ultracarnal organs. Other people can become ultracarnal organs of a personality, and employment practices based on this ('devouring') are particularly meticulous; they are distinct from simply being property of the person, and in many cases can act as stand-ins for the actual person. Works of art or architecture, or even symbols, can also be ultracarnal (temple maintenance being an ancient application of personality); popularly, critics hold artists or proprietors who have since had little to do with a work accountable for later changes and revisions, which, although not directly connected to the legal aspect of personality, illustrates the degree of connection in the minds of those who observe it. Some legal theories hold that such personality actually makes the original person dissolute or irrelevant, substituted by the inevitably more dominant ultracarnal, and hold based on this that trusteeships are a superior way of management. Austral legal terminology relates personality-related concepts with the imagery of physiology.