Knights of the Nine - Improved Infamy System

Knights of the Nine - Improved Infamy System

Requirements:

Knights of the Nine

Description

Knights of the Nine adds a repeatable pilgrimage to wayshrines, which upon completion clears your infamy. This was probably done by the developers to facilitate the Crusader armor, but it was actually a bad move for four reasons:

• []It erases your accumulated infamy, which is a record of your evil deeds in quests. Basically, even the Listener of the Dark Brotherhood can be an angelic hero.

  []As a result of the above, even evil characters can easily gain access to the powerful holy restoration of chapel altars. The only requirements are that you have no bounty and fame that is greater than your infamy. In the late game, your fame will likely be huge, so one infamy reset and you’re good to attend Sunday service for a lifetime.

  []It breaks the balance of the fame/infamy bonus to NPC disposition. You can get a disposition bonus of up to +20 for fame and -20 for infamy (both at 67, respectively), which cancel each other out. But, similar to the above, one infamy reset means even evil characters get just the +20, since all characters will accrue fame from completing quests and closing Oblivion gates. This is one reason why everyone in Cyrodiil absolutely seems to love late game characters. In vanilla, you’d have to specifically avoid evil actions to get such a bonus.

  []It breaks the Shrine of Sithis in the Vile Lair DLC. This shrine requires you to have more infamy than fame (the opposite of chapel altars). Therefore, at high fame, one infamy reset will make it difficult to use the altar ever again, even for an evil character. Better get killing...

  Anyway, this mod basically makes it so that your infamy isn’t reset upon completing a pilgrimage, but, more importantly, it preserves all vanilla infamy-related features from the base game and DLCs, including Crusader armor, altars, the Pilgrim's Grace power, etc.

  How it Works

  Completing a pilgrimage stores your current infamy. This is your now your new baseline infamy when it comes to determining the holy features. It simulates the Nine Divines forgiving your prior misdeeds, whilst acknowledging that they still happened.

  For example, having 32 infamy and completing a pilgrimage means you can now use altars, Crusader armor, and wayshrines as long as your infamy doesn’t increase above 32. Once it does, you’ll need to complete another pilgrimage to access those features again. You can also gain the Pilgrim’s Grace power just as in vanilla if you complete two pilgrimages in a r