It also boosts your courting chance with the ladies. It boosts your party cap and whether you get accepted into a faction or feast. Renown is a measure of how famous you are. It is lost when you fail to complete a 'Resolve Dispute' mission. Right to Rule is gained by recieving recognition from the other factions, making peace with another faction (whether you are the ruler of the faction or not) and successfully sending a companion to complete their Right to Rule mission and getting married. High right to rule will allow you to accumulate lords quickly in your faction and make diplomacy with other factions easier, whilst low right to rule will cause factions to declare war on you more often, and your lords will defect more often. Right to rule is a measure of how legitimate your claim to the throne of Calradia is perceived to be by your peers. Honor can be lost by refusing to take ransom for a lord, declaring war on a faction without provacation or looting villages. Honor can be gained by refusing payment for a mission, releasing a lord, and letting a lord go after you win a battle. Having high honor and gaining honor will get you brownie points and relations respectively with most lords, however certain ones will not appreciate having high honor (although there is no relations penalty for gaining honor).

Honor, right to rule, renown and relations are all forms of reputation. This article deals with honor, right to rule, renown and relations. It is especially important when you have to run a faction, for diplomatic and administrative reasons. In any Mount and Blade game, reputation is important. It displays renown, honor and right to rule.

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