Reference

Towns, Reputation & the Mayor

Every town keeps a collector who will take what you have gathered and remember that you gave it. Your standing with a town earns titles and opens its own goods; the town's own standing — everything every player has ever given it — decides how the place looks, down to the armour its guards wear.

The short version

Where: The Town Collector, standing in every town square
What they take: Anything gathered or refined — ore, ingots, wood, planks, fish, leather, reagents
What you get: Standing with that town, which never decays and is never spent
Per donation: Up to 1,000 of one thing at a time
Swearing an oath: 250 standing with that town, and 7 days between oaths

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Standing is a KEY, never a coin. Nothing ever spends it and nothing ever takes it away — not swearing to another town, not losing the Mayor's seat. It only goes up, which is what lets titles hang off it: a title you have earned can never be taken back by something you do later.

Your standing with a town

Each rung is a title you may wear — "Patron of Britain" and so on. Only your highest rung per town is offered, and it follows you up as you climb.

Standing	Points given	Title
Supporter	50	e.g. "Supporter of Britain"
Contributor	250	e.g. "Contributor of Britain"
Benefactor	1,000	e.g. "Benefactor of Britain"
Patron	5,000	e.g. "Patron of Britain"
Luminary	20,000	e.g. "Luminary of Britain"

What a town looks like, and what it cost everyone

This ladder is the WHOLE SHARD's, not yours: every point anyone has ever given a town counts toward it, and everyone sees the same town. The armour its guards wear is the quickest way to read where a town stands.

Rung	Given, all hands	The watch	What appears
Quiet	0	none	No watch, no banners. A town getting by.
Watched	2,500	2 in leather iron — 2 on the gate	A watchman in leather either side of the gate, and planters by the monument.
Patrolled	10,000	4 in iron — 2 on the gate, 2 patrolling	The garrison dons iron plate, two more guards walk the streets, and banners hang from the walls.
Fortified	40,000	5 in shadow iron — 2 on the gate, 3 patrolling	Shadow iron on the garrison, three guards on patrol, and towers rising either side of the gate.
Resplendent	150,000	6 in golden — 2 on the gate, 4 patrolling	A gilded garrison, four patrols walking the streets, towers along the wall, and braziers burning through the night.

What a town sells its own

Every town keeps the same two kinds of goods, and no two towns keep the same ones: the material differs by what the place is, and the colour is that town's alone. Paid for in gold — your standing only decides whether they will sell to you.

Goods	Cost	Needs
A rare material the town stocks	4,000 gold	250 standing
That town's own dye colour	25,000 gold	5,000 standing, and an oath to that town

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The MAYOR of a town is whichever sworn citizen has given it the most. The office carries a title and a plaque at the courtyard gate with your name on it, for everyone who walks in to read. It can be taken from you the moment somebody gives more — and swearing to another town gives it up.

What a town will take, and what it is worth

One point is one point wherever you give it — a town does not care which of its neighbours you have been working for. Refined goods are worth three times their raw tier, because refining spent a second skill and more raw material to make.

Category	Item	Points each
Ore	Iron Ore	1
	Dull Copper Ore	2
	Shadow Iron Ore	3
	Copper Ore	4
	Bronze Ore	5
	Golden Ore	6
	Agapite Ore	7
	Verite Ore	8
	Valorite Ore	9
Ingots	Iron Ingot	3
	Dull Copper Ingot	6
	Shadow Iron Ingot	9
	Copper Ingot	12
	Bronze Ingot	15
	Golden Ingot	18
	Agapite Ingot	21
	Verite Ingot	24
	Valorite Ingot	27
Wood	Wood	1
	Dullwood	2
	Shadowwood	3
	Copperwood	4
	Bronzewood	5
	Goldwood	6
	Agawood	7
	Veriwood	8
	Valiwood	9
Planks	Wood Plank	3
	Dullwood Plank	6
	Shadowwood Plank	9
	Copperwood Plank	12
	Bronzewood Plank	15
	Goldwood Plank	18
	Agawood Plank	21
	Veriwood Plank	24
	Valiwood Plank	27
Fish	Fish	1
	Dullfish	2
	Shadowfish	3
	Copperfish	4
	Bronzefish	5
	Goldfish	6
	Agafish	7
	Verifish	8
	Valorfish	9
Leather	Leather	1
	Dull Leather	2
	Shadow Leather	3
	Copper Leather	4
	Bronze Leather	5
	Golden Leather	6
	Agapite Leather	7
	Verite Leather	8
	Valorite Leather	9
Reagents	Black Pearl	2
	Blood Moss	2
	Garlic	2
	Ginseng	2
	Mandrake Root	2
	Nightshade	2
	Spider's Silk	2
	Sulfurous Ash	2
Cap Stones	Cap Stone	5