What can change the nature of a man?

Planescape: Torment¹ asks one question from its first screen to its last. It is never answered outright — only lived through.

What can change the nature of a man? If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear — whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can.

I’ve seen belief move cities, make men stave off death, and turn an evil hag’s heart half-circle. This entire Fortress has been constructed from belief…²

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