Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11406405-20130718160343/@comment-5781280-20130719183849

While it is unfortunate that your character is incovienanced by the role play of the Clergy and the various guilds who make up the Council of Bishops, and that you are forced to adapt to the RP world around you, it is precisely for this reason that we try to walk the careful line in our approach to these matters and why we always attempt to approach them in an IC manner.

I can say with 100% confidence that, from an OOC level, everyone involved in the CoB roleplay is perfectly accepting of those who do not wish to recognize this role play. We make sure that, when we do want to involve someone, they are OK with what is happening and, when they are not, that we take our business somewhere else. The CoB can seem rather overbearing at times, but it only plays this role with people who have previously accepted some degree of their legitimacy.

As such, if you find this RP to be perturbing and distasteful, then we would suggest that you simply recuse yourself from it and we shall harbor not a ounce of ill-will against you for that choice. It saddens us that this recusal will limit your ability to interact with us and help us build a strong and interwoven Holy - RP community, but we also want this to be a fun and stress free environment for everyone.

In fact, it's perfectly reasonable for Binor to simply claim that those sitting on the CoB are power hungry clerics scrambling for the scraps left by Benedictus... in fact, that's actually interesting RP. All that said, the people involved are still going to RP what they believe they are and I would hope that those who have an OOC disagreement will not hold grudges because these people continue to publically RP the influence they claim