If you almost scrolled past the Fable reveal, stop here: the interesting part is not "good vs evil." Fable is turning the morality bar into a public opinion system. In Fable, good and evil are not in your heart. They are in the hands of whoever saw you. [C001]
Most morality systems judge what you did. Fable seems more interested in who saw it, who repeated it, and what they already thought of you. That is a meaner idea because it feels closer to real life.
The 80% price jump is the clearest tell. In the example discussed around the reveal, your status as a landlord and entrepreneur makes one villager more interested in you, while another seller reads the same status as snobbery and charges you 80% more. Same person, different jury.
That is why "public opinion system" feels more accurate than "morality meter." Reputation appears to form settlement by settlement, through witnesses, not as one global good-or-evil score. Call that Fable's judgement.
Boundary: this read comes from preview footage and interview coverage, not a hands-on build. But a game update is worth your attention not because it lists more features, but because it changes your next question. Here the question stops being "Was I good?" and becomes "Who is telling the story about me?" Share this with the person still calling it a standard morality bar.