well one could dive back to an older version to see if this is true, but from what I can tell you can only tell tales of your actions via remembering the locations of where the event went down.
otherwise not really.
though on the subject of reputations their been recent discoveries on the locals don't really know anything even what they ask you to do, until you ask them back about said subject.
also considering you need to talk to someone or have someone mention them to get their name and have your character remember them enough to make a performance, they might never even pop up in the list of foes slain by you, unless someone mentions oh hey we been terrorized by so n so. which by then you probably get your character to remember oh yeah I met and killed them,
then there's the whole bestiary thing where the folks you talk to might not even know what a cat is, or another human or dwarf or goblin, and peasants are very very lacking in knowledge which leads to them saying it's inevitable for rumors, which after being told this said rumor they will remember this.
imagine trying to build fame off folks who Don't know who anyone is or what anyone is with tales of murdering a beast, luckily there royals who know fair small selection of folks who you can talk to and build a relationship of that one person who kill stuff good but other wise also kind of have that "what's a dog" problem their underlings also have.
though this is what I notice in Human towns so the other sites probably alot different.