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1) obedient doesn't and shouldn't affect the leadership skill, so you cannot see anything on the descriptions of the leadership skill in screenshots.

2) obedient changes how the leadership skill affects the obedient person (the obedient person is the recipient of leadership, not the leader). You won't see this change in the skill description, you will only see it in the effect of the leadership aura.

=> Obedient = IF an obedient person is subject to the leadership aura, the obedient person gains an additional bonus that is not part of the normal leadership aura/not part of the skill description


For example, in my screenshots, two of my party members have leadership rank 2 (not rank 4), so everyone in the party gets the rank 2 effects of +5 initiative, +10% damage and +10 chance to hit.

But the obedient person gets an additional +1 willpower. This is not due to leadership rank 4 - if it was leadership rank 4, i would also get a bonus to critical hit (rank 3), but i do not.

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Since you said you are an IT guy, let me use some bad pseudocode to illustrate. For each party member, run this:

if (isObedient(partyMember) && affectedByLAura(partyMember))
{
setAuraEffect(partyMember,getMaxRank(),bonus);
}
if (!isObedient(partyMember) && affectedByLAura(partyMember))
{
setAuraEffect(partyMember,getMaxRank());
}
else {
// do nothing, since not affected by LAura
}