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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8780136" data-attributes="member: 6790260">At least in my case, the official church doesn't rule because they've been told not to. The priesthood has Kafer-Naum, the Temple-City, but otherwise they recognize themselves as servants to the community, people present in and aiding temporal authority. This is an extension of the orders given to the &quot;Servants&quot; (celestials--e.g. angels and couatl), who claim to have been ordered to never, ever coerce mortals. To coerce others by taking temporal authority would be to overstep their bounds as servants of the One. That doesn't mean there haven't been factions who try, but those factions are generally not very influential in the priesthood.*The Kahina (Druids/Shaman) are a lot more comfortable with temporal power, particularly Druids (as established by our party Druid and his family), but it's a lot harder to find good recruits now than it used to be, and having authority over a tribe isn't quite the same as ruling a city with an army etc.*That said, over in Yuxia, the Not!Asia country in the mortal world, there is a much closer link between religion and political power, but that's because they view the world as part of the Celestial Bureaucracy rather than as a heavenly hierarchy which is separate from temporal power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8780136, member: 6790260"] At least in my case, the official church doesn't rule because they've been told [I]not[/I] to. The priesthood has Kafer-Naum, the Temple-City, but otherwise they recognize themselves as servants to the community, people present in and aiding temporal authority. This is an extension of the orders given to the "Servants" (celestials--e.g. angels and couatl), who claim to have been ordered to never, ever coerce mortals. To coerce others by taking temporal authority would be to overstep their bounds as servants of the One. That doesn't mean there haven't been factions who try, but those factions are generally not very influential in the priesthood.* The Kahina (Druids/Shaman) are a lot more comfortable with temporal power, particularly Druids (as established by our party Druid and his family), but it's a lot harder to find good recruits now than it used to be, and having authority over a tribe isn't quite the same as ruling a [I]city[/I] with an [I]army[/I] etc. *That said, over in Yuxia, the Not!Asia country in the mortal world, there [I]is[/I] a much closer link between religion and political power, but that's because they view the world as part of the Celestial Bureaucracy rather than as a heavenly hierarchy which is separate from temporal power. [/QUOTE]

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