Okay, so I picked up some of the sons of hodir commendation badges and just started using them. What i forgot to do was start my rep with them. I used about 17 commendations before i realized i was 8k into hated. Once I completed the Forging an alliance quest, it automatically put me up to revered. I dont know if this was working as intended, or if me using commendations before every starting rep with them caused some sort of glitch. If anybody has an alt to try this on to verify I would be very appreciative. hope this helps and works for everybody else, it did for me : )