Raising Favours (Guide)
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Wiki note: See also Calling in Favours (Guide)
This guide lists the best repeatable methods in London for raising Favours for characters whose major qualities are 100 or more.
General Methods[edit]
Faction Opportunity Cards[edit]
Each faction has its own Opportunity card which provides an option to gain 1 Favour.
Keep in mind, that Time, the Healer gives a single 
Favourable Circumstance each week (up to 1), which can be used to force-draw any of the faction cards, effectively giving you a single chosen Favour! (Just remember to have the item needed to redeem it, as leaving that card will waste your Circumstances!)
20 x 
15 x 
10 x 
1 x 
Connected Pet Cards[edit]
Each faction (with the exception of Rubbery Men) has its own pet which provides an Opportunity card, with an option to gain 1 Favour. You can only have one Connected Pet at a time.
| Pet Name | Stats | Favours | Pet Card | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Hungover Terrier
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 +1 Bizarre
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 Bohemians
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 15 x Inspired...
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 Preening Macaw
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+1 Bizarre
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 Hell
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 3 x 1 CP
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 Bandaged Raven
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+1 Bizarre
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 Tomb-Colonies
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 3 x Melancholy
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 Grubby Kitten
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 +1 Dreaded
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 Urchins
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 3 x 20 x
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 Subtle Mole
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+1 Dreaded
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 The Great Game
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 3 x
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 Disappointing Marsh-Wolf
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+1 Dreaded
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 Criminals
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 3 x
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 Maverick Bloodhound
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+1 Dreaded
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 Constables
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 1 x,  1 x,  1 x
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 Tell-Tale Beetle
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 +1 Respectable
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 The Church
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3 x
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 Taciturn Mynah
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+1 Respectable
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 The Docks
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3 x
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 Racing Slug of Fine Pedigree
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+1 Respectable
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 Society
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 3 x
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 Partisan Messenger Tortoise
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+1 Respectable
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 Revolutionaries
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3 x
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Affiliation Cards[edit]
While most Opportunity Cards from Items are based on its presence in your inventory, a handful of items will add a Card to the deck when equipped, by granting a level of a unique quality which unlocks the card. Many of these items are Affiliations, and many of their associated Cards grant a Favour. Paying close attention to your Affiliation will let you add one more Favour source to your deck.
If you care about these cards, be mindful about what Outfit you're wearing when drawing! As they share a slot, you may only add one such Card to your deck at a time. You may also remove all such cards from your deck by equipping a different Affiliation (or none at all).
Mrs Plenty's Carnival[edit]
If your Renown is less than 5, you can expend two actions and a Carnival Ticket at Mrs Plenty's Carnival to gain 3 CP and 1 Favour. You will also gain some Renown at the same time, so this cannot be used forever even if you otherwise keep Renown low. This method can be used for all currently-converted factions.
- Bohemian
- The Church
- Constables
- Hell
- Society
- The Tomb-Colonies
- The Widow
- Criminals
- The Docks
- The Duchess
- The Great Game
- Revolutionaries
- Rubbery Men
- Urchins
Static Actions and Storylets[edit]
The fact that most Favours are gained through Opportunity Cards can frustrate players with bad luck or poor RNG optimisation. Fortunately, each faction's Favours can be gained without the RNG's interference through fixed storylets.
- Grinding for
Notability and trading it for a Favourable Circumstance can allow you to force-draw any standard contact card. One is received per week from Time, the Healer, but getting more can be expensive depending on your Bizarre/Dreaded/Respectable rating. - Favours: Bohemians can be obtained when you Book a reading from an Unsavoury Poet on Thursday in Mahogany Hall.
- Favours: Constables or Favours: The Church can be obtained reliably 3-at-a-time, by breeding the
Hound of Heaven at the Labyrinth of Tigers. This requires repeated Zee trips to capture 
Plated Seals, and is recommended for 
Monster-Hunters as they can get an extra reward from each trip. - Favours: Criminals can be obtained by going to prison and trading one
Skyglass Knife per Favour. You can also Share what you've learned with a Second-Storey Man at the end of the Box of Intrigue carousel in Spite. 
Favours: Fingerkings can be obtained when you provide tribute at The Dome of Scales, Occupied consisting of a 
Reprehensible Lizard, 
Lucky Weasel, 
Cheerful Goldfish, or 
Seven-Throated Warbler.- Favours: Hell can be obtained by Heisting The Circumspect Envoy's Townhouse, choosing anything except the set of wax tablets in The Envoy's Study, then Deliver the documents to the Brass Embassy afterwards. You can also Report to the Brass Embassy at the end of the Spying on Polythreme carousel in Polythreme.
- Favours: Revolutionaries can be obtained when you Publish a seditious edition of your newspaper in Doubt Street. You can also Report to Revolutionaries at the end of the Spying on Polythreme carousel in Polythreme.
Favours: Rubbery Men can be obtained by choosing the Glim-Shard when you Gather the Riches of Bullbone Island, then giving it to The Rubbery Glim-Trader in Wolfstack Docks.- Favours: Society can be obtained by being Honoured with a State Dinner in Port Carnelian, or by graduating a Gifted Student from your Laboratory.
- Favours: The Docks can be obtained by completing the main carousel at Mutton Island and choosing to Rescue the crew. Parabolan nightmare-hunters can also gain Docks favours by slaying Pinewood Sharks.
- Favours: The Great Game can be obtained with An exchange of favours at the end of the Doing Business in Wilmot's End carousel in Wilmot's End.
- Favours: Tomb-Colonies can be obtained when you Book a Decaying Humorist on Wednesday in Mahogany Hall.
- Favours: Urchins can be obtained when you Share what you've learned with a Cross at the end of the Box of Intrigue carousel in Spite.
Faction Items[edit]
Favours can be purchased for FATE using Faction Items.
Grinding favours[edit]
If you are trying to gain favours for a particular faction (say, for raising renown), as well as the methods listed below, you should gain the faction's connected pet and keep an eye out for their faction opportunity card. You can also Send a Message to a Contact (choose Arrange a meeting with your contacts) via Your Activities and spend a Favourable Circumstance to draw a faction's card and easily gain a favour. You gain Favourable Circumstances each week when Time, the Healer visits.
Bohemians[edit]
Mahogany Hall grants 1 favour per 9 actions by attending the Thursday performance.
There are a few good card options for Bohemian favours, including the Forger or Singer on A Visit, and the Young Stag's club card (if you are a member), and Attend to Your Spouses if you are married to A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours, or A Bewildering Procession of Companions, Lovers, Suitors, and Paramours if you are married to the Celebrated Artist's Model. The card The Seekers of the Garden can also give 1 favour via Entertain a curious crowd if you have finished Evolution (Guide).
The Church[edit]
Aside from cards, Church favours can be gained by breeding a Hound of Heaven and selling it to the Church.
Constables[edit]
A fast way to raise Constable favours is by selling cover identities to constables at the Magistracy of the Evenlode. You will need access to Balmoral and a Cabinet Noir, as well as a Urchin favour to create the required cover identity. Sourcing Urchin favours from the Boxful of Intrigue carousel averages 1 favour per 10.5 actions.
Constable favours can also be gained at 1 favour per 13.6 actions (only when passing all checks) by breeding a Hound of Heaven in the Labyrinth of Tigers, and then selling it to the Constables.
Alternative card sources for Constable favours include the A Visit card (meet with the Soldier), and Riding your Velocipede (through owning a Velocipede).
Criminals[edit]
Criminal favours can be sourced from the Boxful of Intrigue carousel at 1 favour per 14 actions.
Favours are also easy to source from opportunity cards; A Visit with the Forger, Remind them who's boss if you own a Gang of Hoodlums, Etiquette for the Ruthless if you own a Ruthless Henchman, Overly alluring? with the Alluring Accomplice, Burglary with the Master Jewel Thief if you are married to the Master Jewel Thief, and Respectable Passengers if you have at least 10 renown with Criminals.
The Docks[edit]
The fastest method of gaining Docks favours is possibly hunting Pinewood Sharks in Parabola, which requires having Dangerous gains. Otherwise they can be sourced at 1 favour per 24 actions on Mutton Island, or if you are lucky at the Dept. of Menace Eradication by Confiding in the Chandleress when the Airs of London are between 96-100.
There aren't too many opportunity cards for Docks favours. Two notable options are the A Visit card (the Soldier), and The Windward Tower: the Matter of the Decommissioned Steamer by moving into and loaning out your Decommissioned Steamer (note that this costs 5 actions per favour as it requires moving to your Steamer, loaning it out, and then reclaiming it).
Hell[edit]
A fast way to gain Hell favours is by selling cover identities to Devils via the card Halfway to Hell (this method requires a railway as far as Balmoral and a Cabinet Noir. Since there are far fewer cards that can be drawn in the Upper River, this card can be drawn more frequently than favour cards in London.
The Cover Identity requires a Society favour (which have many more sources than Hell favours), or 250 Cryptic Clues with a Surveilling Spindlewolf. Not counting actions needed for travel, or to get favours or cryptic clues, this method reaches 2 favours per 5 actions.
If you are lucky, another good way to raise favours is by the London opportunity card Attending a Party. The Brass Ambassador can give you 2 favours for a Bottle of Broken Giant 1844 at 6 time remaining, and 1 favour for an Infernal Contract at 1 time remaining.
Revolutionaries and The Great Game[edit]
A fast method of gaining Revolutionary and Great Game favours is via the chessboard in Parabola. This method involves playing a round of chess as white or black until you reach the endgame, and then choosing to Betray! Destroy! Take white down from the inside!, or Betray! Destroy! Take black down from the inside! for 3 favours from the Revolutionaries or Great Game respectively. You will need A Player of Chess 4.
This method will cycle between granting Revolutionary and Great Game favours. At the end of the round, you will switch your chessboard colour, and increase or decrease Advancing the Liberation, locking you out of playing as your first colour in the next round. Play another round, this time as your new colour, and then Betray! again to get three favours. You will switch back to your first, and be able to repeat the process.
A round of chess takes 9 actions, so this methods results in 3 actions per favour.
Note that using this method you can only gain a maximum of 6 favours (3 each time). If you are using favours to raise your renown you will also need to leave Parabola to use the faction item, so there is the extra cost of an action and 50-100 honey to enter Parabola.
Rubbery Men[edit]
Rubbery Men have few card options, and no particularly good options for storylets - 1 favour per 24 actions in the Fate-locked Flute Street, or 21 actions + sailing there and back on Bullbone Island.
As for cards, there is the option of the Rubbery faction card, the Inverted Stalactite card while wearing a Stalactite Society, or the infrequent card Ministry Enforcement in Ealing Gardens.
If you are lucky, you can raise favours by Attending a Party. The Tentacled Entrepreneur can give you 1-2 favours for at 5 time remaining, and 1 favour for an Infernal Contract at 2 time remaining.
Society[edit]
The fastest storylet option for Society favours is the Fate locked Sinning Jenny's Finishing school, with 12 actions for 0-2 favours. However, Society is one faction where there are many card opportunities, including the Clay Sedan Chair's card, the Functionary and Music-Hall Singer from A Visit, and several options while Attending a Party (Guide).
Tomb-Colonies[edit]
Tomb-Colony favours can be sourced at 1 favour per 9 actions in Mahogany Hall by attending the Wednesday performance and choosing Book a Decaying Humorist.
Urchins[edit]
Urchin favours can be sourced at 1 favour per 14 actions via the A Boxful of Intrigue carousel. Urchin favours can also be sourced from the card Your Winsome Orphan is out of control by owning a Winsome Dispossessed Orphan.
Raising Specific Favours[edit]
Note: The following list only includes some notable sources for each Favours type. For a full list, please click the relevant category link from the entries below.
Bohemians[edit]
12 x 
1 x 
4000 x 
14 x 
5 x
The Church[edit]
10 x 
50 x 
5 x 
Constables[edit]
5 x 
Criminals[edit]
5 x 
5 x 
The Docks[edit]
The Great Game[edit]
5 x
Fingerkings[edit]
1 x 
5 x 
Hell[edit]
1 x 
1 x 
Revolutionaries[edit]
Rubbery Men[edit]
1 x 
Society[edit]
Tomb-Colonies[edit]
1 x 
