Fame

In, Fame and Infamy are statistics on the player's character summary page, which are a measure of how well known the player's character is for performing heroic or dastardly deeds. Many quests, in particular the main story line, raise fame by a few points.

Renown is effective total value of the player's good/bad deeds seen by the gods, calculated as number of Fame points plus number of Infamy points.

Renown is checked when players want to activate Cult (Heavenly) Doomstones. Fame is needed to purchase the houses in Chorrol and in Skingrad.

At very high infamy e.g. above 600 Infamy, marauders and bandits will stop fighting you and greet you like any other NPC in the game. This can be quite useful for quickly going through forts and Ayleid ruins.

There is the exception of Orc Marauders which will attack you if you have any fame, regardless of your infamy.

Main Quest

 * The player gains a fame point for each city they get to send help in Allies for Bruma.
 * In The Wayward Knight you earn 2 points if Farwil Indarys escapes the Plane of Oblivion alive. Otherwise you earn only 1 point.

Miscellaneous Quests
Note that one may lose fame points or gain Infamy points if a quests NPC dies prematurely or another condition is not met. See infamy for details.

Infamy Points
One can avoid Infamy by committing crimes with no witnesses, but Infamy can be gained by accidentally attacking allies.

Removing your infamy
By completing the Pilgrimage the Hero can reset their infamy to 0. This can be completed any time as long as the user has either the standard PS3 version or (Plug-in) or the Knights of the Nine (Expansion).

Guilds & Daedra
Quests from the Fighters Guild or the Mages Guild is a great way to raise the player's fame alongside with Arena Matches. Infamy will come to players while working for the Thieves Guild or the Dark Brotherhood.
 * Fighters Guild. Every quest for the Fighters Guild earns you a fame point, excluding the last three from Modryn Oreyn. Total Fame Points = 16.
 * Mages Guild. Like the Fighters Guild you get a single point for all quests, however once again there are some exceptions. Giving the book to Teekeeus before Earana will earn you two points instead of just one. You get an additional fame point for completing Join the Mages Guild. Two points for A Mage's Staff and three points for Confront the King. Total Fame Points = 23.
 * Arena. A point for every match and 10 points for the Championship match against Agronak gro-Malog. Total Fame Points = 31.
 * Thieves Guild Upon joining the Thieves Guild you will gain an infamy point. You shall also gain two every time you advance a rank and ten once you become the Gray Fox. Total Infamy Points = 22+.
 * Dark Brotherhood Once you complete the Dark Brotherhood questline and become the listener of the Dark Brotherhood, you gain twenty infamy points. Total Infamy Points = 20+.
 * Daedric Quests Every time you are given one of the Daedric Artifacts by the Daedric Lords, except Namira, you gain a fame point. Total Fame Points = 14.
 * Oblivion Gates Gain one or two fame points for every gate of oblivion that you shut. Total Fame Points = There are 50 Oblivion Gates, the number of points can vary from 50-100 or more.