Factions

Reputation, water rituals, alliances, hostility and faction-specific rewards.

Reputation is Qud remembering what you did and who you honored.

Water rituals are the social technology of Qud.

The Mechanimists turn devotion, chrome and pilgrimage into power.

The Barathrumites are central to the main quest and the machinery of survival.

The Putus Templar are a faction-shaped warning sign for many characters.

Goatfolk reputation can turn the jungle from a murder corridor into a negotiation.