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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8782089" data-attributes="member: 10531">Sure.&nbsp; Like I just said, &quot;Such places might well emerge, and some might persist, but it's not going to be the usual state of society.&quot;They would. And then other gods would take them down. The equilibrium state, then, is that while there are always a few places ruled by clerics of a single faith/alliance of faiths, most places are not ruled by clerics.It doesn't mean that. It means that the usual state of the Realms is that most places are not under rule of clerics.Again, the topic here is &quot;Why Don't The Mages Take Over The World?&quot; Answering that doesn't require explanations that stops there from being some ruling spellcasters, it just requires explanations that justify a substantial part of the world not being ruled by spellcasters. Just as answering the question &quot;Why Don't The Americans Take Over The World?&quot; doesn't require that it be impossible for Americans to rule in the United States, it just requires explanations for why Americans don't run the whole world.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 8782089, member: 10531"] Sure. Like I just said, "Such places might well emerge, and some might persist, but it's not going to be the usual state of society." They would. And then other gods would take them down. The equilibrium state, then, is that while there are always a few places ruled by clerics of a single faith/alliance of faiths, [I]most[/I] places are not ruled by clerics. It doesn't mean that. It means that the usual state of the Realms is that [I]most[/I] places are not under rule of clerics. Again, the topic here is "Why Don't The Mages Take Over The World?" Answering that doesn't require explanations that stops there from being [I]some[/I] ruling spellcasters, it just requires explanations that justify a substantial part of the world [I]not[/I] being ruled by spellcasters. Just as answering the question "Why Don't The Americans Take Over The World?" doesn't require that it be impossible for Americans to rule in the United States, it just requires explanations for why Americans don't run [I]the whole world[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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