Dreadlord of the Keep

In order to get the Warden/Dread Lord epithets, you need to meet certain criteria; specifically, you need to have recruited certain people and built certain structures. For the Warden, you'll need Light of Heavens, her sister Joy, and Ivarr the Blessed, and you'll need to have built the church instead of the monastery. For Dread Lords, you want Startear, Uncus and Caelryna, and you'll need the Wizard Tower too. You've also got to be either Good or Evil.

These epithets are mutually exclusive, of course, but so are the requirements. You can't get Dread Lord if you built the church, for example, as that counts as recruiting Ivarr who as a do-gooder is not compatible with an Evil Keep. Ditto with Uncus and the Warden epithet.

Actual Keep management doesn't change at all - it's purely a roleplaying thing. You do however get a gift from either Joy or Caelryna that provides decent stat bonuses (we get extra Intelligence and extra AC vs. Law and Good from ours).

All that said... we didn't actually get this conversation at all. There's another requirement as well: your Keep Civility. Wardens have to have it high; Dread Lords low.