[andrewas]

You may be roleplaying a cavalier, but mages have been known to *ahem* accidently *cough chough* toast a few civilians. Things like cloudkill are bad for it since the buggers can wonder in after it starts, and you still take the drop. Anyway, I just checked and reputation is alterable in Shadowkeeper. (adjust the reputation number for your avatar, the others are redundant). Im now sure that the rep change is something that happened in game and not during the copy. Unless it also effects your older saves as well, in which case im clueless.