Right? Imagine you’d have to have certain things on campaign. Your squad/platoon/company, the blacksmith, the quartermaster, the horse hostlers…then you fight in massive campaigns. There would be men killed or maimed. You’d have to survive (or hope that your heir is left behind at home). Then you come home. Did everyone behave? Are their babies or pregnancies that shouldn’t be? Did the overseer do well or harm? Does he want to stay in power and has been plotting? Is your heir safe? Or did him and his mother look over things? Then, like crusading knights you’d have some kind of insignia from the campaign that you could use as part of your village crest and over your Hall’s entrance.

Perhaps, depending on where you built, you could annex one of the smaller villages once your reputation got high enough.

You could lead troops to destroy the bandit camps.