ok, i know this has come up before, but i'ma say it again...
when you hit the amount of favor needed for an emblem, you should be able to choose whether you want the emblem or not. at this point, i've already gotten and spent every emblem i can get and spend, and i'm not interested in any more, especially since there's no good way of getting rid of them save just dropping them on the ground (i left 3 in the backyard of my old house). i am, however, interested in spending favor to speed my learning, so i do a lot of donating. every so often, though, i overshoot with my tributes, and the shrine just automatically doles out an emblem without asking if i'd rather spend the 1100 favor i just tirelessly worked to pump into it. i would really prefer being given the option of spending favor before having it all automatically taken away in exchange for an item that's more or less useless to me yet still rather expensive to obtain.