Reputation

Reputation is a core mechanic in. Each creature in Qud, including the player character, are favored or disliked by each individual faction. Depending on the reputation with a faction, the members of that faction will be out of three different feelings:
 * - Actively trying to attack the player. Cannot be spoken to for water rituals or conversations.
 * - Has no major feeling either way. Will become hostile if purposefully struck.
 * - If the creature that the faction is friendly to is attacked, all members will turn hostile towards the attacker.

Gaining and Losing Reputation
Reputation is used as a sort of currency that can be traded, gained and lost depending on the player character's actions.

Gaining reputation
Reputation with a faction can be gained by:

Unconventional reputation gains
Depending on the faction, reputation can be gained in unique ways.
 * Donating an artifact to the will grant variable reputation with the Mechanimists based on the artifact's commerce value.
 * Completing quests will grant reputation with a certain faction
 * The council during the The Earl of Omonporch will alter faction reputation wildly in either direction

Unconventional reputation losses
There are certain ways to lose reputation due to more specific actions, some specific to one faction.
 * Barathrumites can teach the player tinkering recipes for reputation
 * Merchants' Guild and the Consortium of Phyta will trade their most valuable item in their inventory/equipment for reputation
 * Factions based in villages will teach a recipe and/or a signature skill for reputation.
 * Using precognition to equip the and cancelling the vision to unequip it will decrease the player's reputation with Highly entropic beings by -100
 * Killing any creature that the player has previously performed the water ritual with in that game will violate its covenant, decreasing the player's reputation with all factions by -90 to -110.
 * The council during the The Earl of Omonporch will alter faction reputation wildly in either direction

Initial Player Reputation
Upon game creation, the player character will have an initial starting reputation based on this table:

Additionally, certain options chosen during Character Creation affect starting reputation: