Audience interaction moment

I like Honours, Honours are fun. However, Honours are also right bastards in that I have the cultural weight of a million different title systems in my head constantly trying to steer me towards (you did X new thing first!) and (you killed something really big, well done!)

In universe, Honours are supposed to be rewards for someone doing something statistically anomalous for their stage of development on a multiversal scale (not like, universal level feats, but like world or country level if performance was averaged across everyone). This is on the assumed basis that people don't know they exist (so intentional Honours hunting doesn't make them harder to achieve)

I have a fair few ideas, but there's a whole lot of variety that I know I will be missing out on because one man who chains himself to his computer in a windowless office consuming a diet solely made of progression fantasy and litrpg can only have so many original ideas.

So i'm going to pull a Macronomicon. Back when I was his patron for The Outer Sphere a long time in the past, he would regularly encourage people to come up with ideas for skills (one of mine made it into the book! I can't remember which one though, it was a while ago). I found this super fun, and got me really hyped to theory craft, so i'm gonna do the same thing.

So, I thought I would ask you guys for fun ideas for Honours--especially those that aren't for 'doing alt progression line first or bestest' or 'killing something, like, super hard'. (I will still accept these if they're interesting, novel, or just something that I will facepalm for not considering earlier). Bonus points if you have an idea for how future ones can be earned if its something that makes sense to be a series.

I'll do it a little different, in that I am primarily using this as outsourced brainstorming. If something is perfect, i'll blantantly use it, but otherwise i'll use it as inspiration.

Things I am interested in -

Additional bonus triggers - what makes sense to give someone a bonus, other than doing something first, solo, or under X tier/level?

Minor Honours - these are things that don't necessarily require a lot of skill or danger, and may or may not be difficult to achieve, but are still worthy of recognition because of how rarely someone managed to pull it off. (example, spending a year in the depths unclassed--Kaius could have sat in a safe corner of layer 1 and hunted normal beasts for food to get this.)

Normal Honours - if you had a culture of people like Kaius and Porkchop, the very best, hardworking, and lucky would start to achieve these, which would likely snowball into more.

Major Honours - If you had that same culture, the very brightest once in a generation stars might achieve a couple of these over their lifetime. (both this and the previous explanation would happen more frequently in an integration scenario)

Don't forget the passive rewards!

Below is a screenshot of the scaling I use for honours-
https://imgur.com/3QEDnUa

Rewards: If your idea serves as direct inspiration for something I put to page, i'll give you two months of patreon, if it end's up in the book as is, i'll give you six and throw you up in the relevant books acknowledgements when I eventually publish.

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