If you gain influence with a faction, you also gain influence with that faction's allies (and lose influence with their enemies). Many factions and people have allies and enemies. Such special correlations are mentioned in a quest's walkthrough. So if you complete the quest for the noble successfully, you will lose a considerable amount of reputation with the Thieves Guild, and its associates and affiliated characters. For example, quests for nobles often interfere with affairs of the Thieves Guild. Some quests add or remove additional reputation to a certain faction or person, dependent on the direction in which the quest moves. After expulsion, if your faction reputation returns to at least 0, you may then rejoin the faction at rank 0. by failing quests assigned by the faction, or by participating in quests that damage your reputation with the faction see the following sections below), you will be expelled from the faction. However, if your faction reputation drops below 0 (e.g. 'guilds', including Knightly Orders, the Fighters Guild, the Mages Guild, etc.), you will not be demoted below your current rank if your faction reputation drops below the minimum threshold for that rank, or even if your faction reputation drops to 0. In addition, the reputation of your character with any faction or person (positive or negative) will move one point closer to zero every 112 days, with this one-point change tracked separately from any reputation changes resulting from successful or failed quests completed for the faction during that period. An enemy faction will gain one point of reputation.

Reputation Loss Р”Р„ failed quest results in the loss of 2 reputation points with the faction, and one point with its associates and allies. Numbers are rounded down, so if you get 5 reputation points with the faction, you only gain 2 points with its associates and allies, and lose 2 points with its enemies. The reputation gain with the faction's associates and allies, or the loss with its enemies, is half the reputation you get with the quest-giving faction. Most quests give 5 reputation points to the faction if completed successfully, while a few provide 10 points. Your reputation with the Temple itself and its associates will not be changed. This method however works only for the deity of the Temple. A donation of 2000 gold will increase your reputation by one point, 4000 gold gains two points of reputation, and so on. Temples provide an exception to the rule it is possible to increase your reputation with a specific deity by giving large donations. For detailed information regarding the organization of a faction, see the 'Political Affiliations' section in the faction's respective UESP page. In such cases your reputation gain or loss with the faction has an immediate influence on the reputation with the associates and its allies and enemies. Many factions are aligned with a number of other factions, and they can have allies as well as enemies. The outcome of a quest determines the gain or loss of reputation with the faction you got the quest from, as well as the effects on reputation with other factions.

Your reputation can only be affected by doing quests. The reputation you can have with a faction or person can vary from -100 to 100, and starts for most factions and people at zero at the beginning of a new game. Your reputation determines which people will talk to you, which quests you can get from a Faction, influence goods and services transactions, and if your Skills are high enough, whether you can receive a promotion within the factions you have joined.

Reputation is the most important influencing factor in the game. 2 Overview of Reputation Gain/Loss for major factions.

Es daggerfall background