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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3919233" data-attributes="member: 21938">I absolutely agree with this - there are obviously degrees of canonicity (if that is such a word!) that you can adhere to.To say that the God-King of City State Y is (a) a benevolent dictator, (b) an evil tyrant or (c) the puppet of extra-planar powers is one thing, but you have thereby established that there is a City State Y and that it is ruled by a God-King.  You can't really allow *that* level of the setting to be subjective or it gets silly!  So its impossible to create a world, I think, where the physicality is not canon (except for distant lands in travellers tale that may or may not exist). Option C, by the way, does not mean that there *are* mind-controlling extraplanar powers, only that people in the setting believe in them.</blockquote>