Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11406405-20130718160343/@comment-11406405-20130719180639

There isn't any legitimate line of reasoning unless the entire server came together and said explicitly, "okay, we're going to do this." For just one group, no matter how predominant you think it is, to decide such a thing is not so much. As for what makes it not okay? That's easy. You have to look at it in terms of strictly IC: for you to claim your character is in a role of importance, everyone else (IC) would technically be bound to respect that character because of who they claim they are. If I OOCly recognized your Council of Bishops or your Archbishop, Binor would be forced to recognize them IC or be some kind of insane splinter faction dude instead. The thing is, I don't recognize these things OOCly–that is to say, I recognize that they're being RPed, but I don't recognize their legitimacy–so Binor just passes them off as power-mongering clerics.