I'm not too good at explaining situational details, so I installed fraps and recorded these:
The synchronous fish that don't need water:
Talking icon when hovering over guard in combat (I don't think one would be able to initiate a conversation with someone who is being spanked by an Orc.

):
Rather odd alignment quirk: killing an Orc (tested with all Orcs) in the first battle causes the guards to like you
less? (First the alignment is 0, after the kill it is -45. Blame the YT transcode for the degraded quality and the fuzzy disposition numbers

)