Renown & Infamy

Your actions echo across Katarra

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Renown and Infamy are separate measures of public story. They are not a single morality bar and do not cancel one another out.

In this chapter

Public knowledge

Records accomplishments, respected deeds, discoveries, milestones, and other acts that contribute to a character’s recognized reputation.

Records feared, notorious, destructive, or socially dangerous history that may be valuable to some people and disastrous with others.

A character may become both renowned and infamous. Katarra preserves the tension instead of reducing both histories to one number.

People and organizations can respond differently based on what they value and what they believe they know about a character.

Reputation can influence access, quests, trust, hostility, prices, invitations, and other world-facing outcomes.

Knowledge endures longer than empires