Infamy & the Edicts

More soldiers in the places Coen is already going. One source frames it specifically as patrols in the areas his quests take him to.

Cost to a routeMarginal on its own. It is the first rung of a ladder you cannot climb back down, which is the only thing about it worth noting.

Checkpoints on the roads. At this level most of the soldiers manning them still do not recognise Coen.

Cost to a routeTravel itself is free, so a checkpoint costs nothing until it stops you. What it does is make routes conditional — and it is the rung that starts making night travel worth the switch.

Every merchant in the valley charges more.

Cost to a routeDenarii, not units — but the two convert. Quests that pay in coin fund the shrine purchases that cost time, and one published quest starts by buying a 200-Denarii item.

More soldiers on the roads, concentrated near waypoints, and each patrol has a commander who knows Coen on sight and attacks.

Cost to a routeThe first rung with real teeth. Fast-travel points are where the commanders are, so the cheapest way to cross the valley becomes the likeliest place to be recognised.

The streets empty after dark. One source notes merchants among the people who stop being outside.

Cost to a routeThis one specifically attacks the day/night split the whole game is built on. Night is Coen's strong phase for combat and traversal — and this is the rung that makes night the wrong time to find anyone to talk to.

Levels 2 and 3 again, harder.

Cost to a routeCompounds what is already there rather than adding a new kind of obstacle.

Special patrols that hunt Coen down, plus the loss of anonymity everywhere — every soldier attacks on sight, not just commanders. One source describes this as the point Brencis formally declares Coen an enemy.

Cost to a routeThe most expensive rung on the ladder. Headhunters come to you, which means fights you did not schedule, and fights are the thing that ends up costing segments.

Raised stats and attack across every soldier in the valley, not just increased numbers.

Cost to a routeA difficulty change rather than a routing change — which on higher difficulties is the same thing, because a fight you can lose is a fight you have to prepare for.

The city can no longer be walked into or out of, and fast travel in and out is disabled. Climbing the walls at night still works.

Cost to a routeReported as the weakest edict in practice, because by the time you reach it the towers have unlocked enough fast-travel points to route around it — and because Coen can climb. Svartrau holds more side content than any other region, so the cost lands on whatever you left there.