if I go to notes and check my character I can see my renown and next to renown there is "controversy" I know the meaning of the word but wtf is it in warband?
Well, controversy is basically how bad the other lords of the realm think about you.
It increases if:
- you are a marshall and your faction loses fights
- you have a duel with your faction's lord,
- you run with your wife away from her home without permission of her relatives
- you own too many fiefs (not sure about this one).
Controversy decreases the possibility of recieving a fief, think it's the only effect it has.