Fame points newbies can easily get:
1. 10 prestige for 1 character
2. 20 prestige for family (10 per character)
3. Purchase a unique item (or is it make one? not completely sure)
4. Lordship (seriously, they aren't hard to get)
5. 20 prestige for 1 character
Bam, there's your 5 fame.
I have achieved 1, 2, 4 twice (guess you only get the fame point once?)
I have never seen a unique item for sale. And I use my adventurer full time gathering items (rare and risky). I've never found a unique item, but I have been told that some of the rare & valuable items can be turned into a unique item by a sage, but I don't know if its true. Anyway trying to locate a sage is like looking for unicorns.