there's lots of little touches in elona and elin that tell you a lot about the dev's world, like how playing instruments badly in public will provoke random civilians to kill you by throwing a heavy object at you, or the way that killing bards incurs no karma loss because everyone's fine with that

cannibalism has no karma penalty inherent to it but eating a cat (and specifically a cat, not just any pet) will result in the game berating you in the text log and giving you a karma drop slightly more severe than you get from murdering a human. game of the century