What would make an entire town hate me?

[mousekiro]

Something a bit odd happened on my last (failed) run.

I went to Derth for the Storming the City quest, and started dealing with the intruders. There were a few Derth citizens standing around, including a named one. Suddenly, they all unexpectedly started attacking me, even though they were still in peril from the gwelgoroths. I killed off my own golem because I couldn't think of any other way of keeping him from retaliating, and kept taking out the gwelgoroths, hoping that saving the town would make the locals realise I wasn't an enemy.

It didn't. I got the "Thank you for taking out those things" message when I took down the last gwelgoroth, but all the other halflings still hated my guts. I didn't attack back, but the named one set a bunch of shadows on me nonetheless. My teleport rune cooled down just in time for me to teleport into the river and avoid being the victim of a lynch mob.

The last time I checked -- post-completion of the Storming the City quest -- they were all still out for my blood. What on earth could have happened to make me a persona non grata in an entire town, and the town I was doing my best to save, at that?

[Davion Fuxa]

You inflicted damage on somebody perhaps?

[Faeryan]

Are you by any chance an undead? Other than that you might have hit the halflings by accident with an AoE or something turning them hostile.

[The Revanchist]

Or, as you mentioned, you had a Golem that may have accidentally hit them with an attack. But why they'd go instantly hostile, aside from being undead, is beyond me.

[ghostbuster]

If you are an undead, do you wear the cloak? Otherwise, everybody hates you...

[Xandor Tik'Roth]

I was playing a Necro once when this happened. One of my undead summons was super low on health, so I killed him so I could summon another before doing the Arena. Killing my own summon was enough to turn the entire town hostile.