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 The Gentle Gift does not count as a Major Hermetic Virtue for the
 purposes of the restrictions on Virtues.
 
+## Reputation
+The current reputation rules are a) widely dispersed over several different books and b) ridiculous in a wide variety of respects. These rules attempt to repair some of the more glaring faults; they represent something of a work in progress as we continue to patch faults as they become apparent.
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+Characters can have as many reputations as they acquire. In order to determine if somebody has heard of a character, sum the absolute value of their reputation experience to create a combined reputation. If a character has heard of another one by the sum of their reputations but not any particular one, they may know some basic biographical detail but beyond that will only be aware of hearing stories about them, which they can no longer recall.
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+If a character with multiple reputations performs a noteworthy act, they gain experience in the most appropriate reputation; if none are appropriate and the action is notable enough, they gain another reputation.
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+Characters cannot gain experience in a negative academic reputation through stagnation beyond the point where it would be greater than the sum of the experience in any positive academic reputation(s) they have.
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 # Expenses
 ## Points of Inhabitants