Bragging will inform people, but increases intimidation, so it may leave them with a more negative view than if you told in rumor or badly told in story. Reserve it for people you're about to kill or are trying to shake down (like robbing someone or getting a tribute from a government group,) but try to keep it out of earshot of the general public. Unless you're trying to subjugate them all and rule them in your tyrannical fist, then nothing really holds you back, does it?
After you've racked up a significant number of kills, you'd have to spam brag a lot before your most significant kills randomly pop out of your mouth.
How do I rule or subjugate people? What does it do?
Is there a wiki article for this stuff?
I've been wondering also. So far, it looks like if you kill everyone in a keep or meadhall and walk into the throne room, you automatically become the ruler.
I'm also not sure what the implications of that are, especially since you can repeat the process and establish a different "group" each time you do it.
Meanwhile, after taking over a keep, I noticed a bunch of camps surrounding. Most of them contained a bunch of random civilians, including a "leader" (boss, etc.) I assumed these were invaders and slew them all in their sleep (it was broad daylight, btw.) I also noticed that once I slew the leader, my followers made quick work of the rest, so clearly they were all of a faction. Of course, the only weapons they had were knives, and each one had a pouch of coins.
But then I found a camp where the only one in it was a human fisherman. Should I assume this is another dangerous invader?
And does it even matter that I systematically wiped out all of these camps?
And I'm also very curious about the implications of lordship in this game. It seems to be an incredibly easy title to attain.