Ah, that makes more sense! I was just misreading the cards. I should've been paying more attention to the bullet points to denote the actions. Maybe removing the line break before the "Then" statement would make the Achieve action read as one block of text instead of two? Otherwise, this seems like the kind of clarification that could be written in the Law of Root rather than on the cards themselves.
I also read past the step that says "Repeat [placing a feat on the Tome] once per Renown on the map". The growing (or shrinking) book should make the Push-Your-Luck mechanism much more dynamic. Would love to see this in action!