The reputation fail check does not cause that "Error". It could be many things actually.. A query failure could do it..
Check the table in shard _AssociationReputation it should have the following inside
Code:
Robber TEMPLE_ANUBIS 0 0
Robber TEMPLE_HAROERIS 0 0
TraderHunter TEMPLE_ANUBIS 0 0
TraderHunter TEMPLE_HAROERIS 0 0
It could be a query that executes and makes the whole db "die" for several moments, once shard/gs is unable to connect to the database it's quite normal to start turning red. I could be in a very wrong way, consider that too !