I see that, besides me and Rev, everyone else has really toned down the attractiveness (almost)...
Well, that means we'll enjoy popularity with the girls, given the lack of competition.
Similarly, with the unit in unbuffed stats. I didn't want to reduce my character's intelligence to the minimum for lore reasons, but when I distributed the stats and figured out what it would give him, I realized that it was an unaffordable luxury for a cleric, and I went down the path of a "Heroist" build.
From a lore perspective, it can be justified by age and the fact that he spent many years in a depressing environment doing monotonous work.