Fame

Fame and Infamy are statistics on your character summary page, which are a measure of how well known your 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 your good/bad deeds seen by the gods, calculated as number of Fame points plus number of Infamy points.

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

Main Quest

 * You gain a fame point for each city you 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 you 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

 * NOTE: Table from UESP.

You can avoid Infamy by comitting crimes with no witnesses.

Removing your infamy
By completing the Pilgrimage you can reset your infamy to 0. This can be completed any time as long as the user has either the standard PS3 version or Knights of the Nine (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 your fame alongside with Arena Matches. Infamy will come to you 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, 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 You gain one or two fame points for every gate of oblivion that you shut. Total Fame Points = Unknown.