I'm only at Act 2 yet so I'm not sure if this question could only be answered by some spoiler. However the mission "The Wailing Banshee" looks strange to me: The "banshee" is supposedly pirate Maerwith's mother. However the logbook was written in 2672 AI, while when the game started it was already 2823 AI, meaning that Maerwith was already born and set out as a pirate 150 years ago, and is still alive and active! Does it make sense at all in Eora, or is it more likely an oversight by the script writer?
Do people have extraordinarily long lives in Pillars of Eternity
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Click on the golden cross in your character portrait, exactly the cross, not the portrait itself.
There is a trick to disabling some of the traps in that area, you probably already found it. This disables enough of the traps that you can cross the area, but not all of them:
Light all the braziers in the adjacent room to disable some of the traps
You should be able to disarm the traps if you select only a single party member and click on them when the mechanics icons appears. I've no idea why this doesn't work in your case. Though I'm not sure if you can disable these specific traps at that point, my character wasn't able to actually disable them.
You can get your party across through the traps by moving each one individually. Just click on the portrait of one of your characters, you'll only move this one then. It's a bit annoying, but possible. There is also another way around the whole thing, so if you don't want to bother, just look for another way out of the cave.
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Maerwith is an elf. And from the Game Manual, we know that :